One year temporal pattern of neurohumoral factors and natriuretic peptides compared with clinical variables in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Background: Elevated levels of neuroendocrine peptides and hormones are some of the compensatory mechanisms activated in patients with congestive heart failure. The aim of this study was to describe their time related variability in clinically stable patients and to compare hormones and peptides levels to clinical variables.

Methods: Nineteen patients with history of congestive heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy and in sinus rhythm were recruited.

Atrial fibrillation and mitral prolapse in a subject affected by Refetoff syndrome.

Inappropriate secretion of TSH (IST) refers to a heterogeneous group of syndromes in which patients show unsuppressed TSH levels in spite of high serum free thyroid hormone concentrations. It has been recognised that IST can be due to both thyroid hormone resistance (RTH) and pituitary TSH-secreting tumours. The former can be generalised (GRTH) or pituitary (PRTH) if the resistance is more severe in the pituitary than in the remaining tissues.

Prevalence of thyroid disorders in untreated adult celiac disease patients and effect of gluten withdrawal: an Italian multicenter study.

Objectives: Many afflictions have been associated with celiac disease, but chance associations may exists. The aim of this study was to establish, by means of a multicenter prospective study, the prevalence of thyroid impairment among adult patients with newly diagnosed celiac disease and to evaluate the effect of a 1-yr gluten withdrawal on thyroid function.

Methods: A total of 241 consecutive untreated patients and 212 controls were enrolled.

Abnormally high TSH in subject with thyrotoxicosis affected by congenital hypothyroidism. Case report.

Inappropriate secretion of TSH (IST) refers to a heterogeneous group of syndromes in which patients show unsuppressed TSH levels in spite of high serum free thyroid hormone concentrations. It has been recognised that IST can be due to both thyroid hormone resistance (RTH) and pituitary TSH-secreting tumours. The former can be generalised (GRTH) or pituitary (PRTH) if the resistance is more severe in the pituitary than in the rest of the tissues.

Autoimmune thyroid diseases and coeliac disease.

Background: Coeliac disease may be associated with a wide variety of diseases of known or suspected immunological aetiology.

Objective: To screen for both (a) the prevalence of coeliac disease in adults with autoimmune thyroid diseases, and (b) thyroid impairment among adults with coeliac disease, as compared to sex- and age-matched controls.

Design: Prospective cohort study.