[Steroid responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis as a cause of acuteencephalopathy].

Steroid-responsive encephalopathy associated with autoimmune thyroiditis (SREAT), known as Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE), represents a heterogeneous group of neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with a presence of antithyroid antibodies in case of other causes of encephalopathy were excluded. Clinical symptoms most commonly includes acute onset of encephalopathy, behaviour changes and cognitive dysfunction, epileptic seizures as well as cerebellar and extrapyramidal symptoms. Corticoids provides rapid and sustained therapeutic benefit in most patients and only a few patients require other immunosuppressive therapy such as plasmapheresis, intravenous immunoglobulins, or others.

[The prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis in hypothyroid stadium].

Introduction: Autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2T) are the two most common endocrinological diseases worldwide. The relationship between T1DM and autoimmune thyreopathies is known and described, but the relationship between thyreopathies and diabetes type 2 is not clarified sufficiently through that studies manifest increasingly the connection between them.

Objective: Investigate the prevalence of DM2T in patients with AIT in hypothyroid stadium and compare with common population and investigate a possible association between thyroid and glucose metabolism parameters.

Clinically silent adrenal adenomas - their relation to the metabolic syndrome and to GNB3 C825T gene polymorphism.

Objectives: Aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of C825T GNB3 gene polymorphism in patients with adrenal incidentaloma (AI) as well as its relation to the metabolic syndrome (MS) and cortisol status.

Subject And Methods: Alltogether 82 subjects (50 patients with AI, mean age 57.9 + 15 years and 32 subjects without AI, mean age 53.

CTLA4 exon1 A49G polymorphism in Slovak patients with rheumatoid arthritis and Hashimoto thyroiditis-results and the review of the literature.

Autoimmune thyroid diseases frequently overlaps with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Among genetic factors, the role of the HLA antigens and CTLA4 gene polymorphisms in the overlapping has been suggested. The aim of this study was to investigate the alleles and genotypes frequency of the CTLA4 exon1 A49G polymorphism in Slovak patients with RA, Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT), both (RA + HT) and in healthy controls.

Autoimmune thyroid disease and autoimmune rheumatic disorders: a two-sided analysis.

Unlabelled: Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (ATD) frequently overlaps with autoimmune rheumatic diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of various non-organ-specific autoantibodies in patients with ATD, as well as the presence of ATD in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Subjects And Methods: Group 1 comprised 80 patients with ATD, and group 2 contained 80 patients with SLE or RA.