Department of Endocrinology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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Department of Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden
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Introduction In recent years, the extraskeletal effects of vitamin D have been extensively studied. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to a variety of autoimmune disorders, including autoimmune thyroid disease [ 1 ]. Genetic variation in genes
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Department of Endocrinology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Department of Endocrinology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Introduction 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 [1,25(OH) 2 D 3 ], the active form of vitamin D, is mainly known for its effects on calcium and phosphate homeostasis with bone, intestine and kidney as principal target tissues. However, 1,25(OH) 2 D 3
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Medical Journal 2015;62:A5157. 26522481 3 Alhefdhi A, Mazeh H, Chen H: Role of postoperative vitamin D and/or calcium routine supplementation in preventing hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Oncologist 2013
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Introduction Hypoparathyroidism is defined as low calcium levels in presence of inappropriately normal or low parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels ( 1 ). It is commonly treated with calcium and activated vitamin D supplements, which makes it the
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[ 14 ]. The coexistence of Graves’ disease and myasthenia gravis is rare but well recognized [ 9 , 15 ]. Polymyositis has also been associated with Graves’ disease [ 8 , 16 ]. On the other hand, increasing evidence indicates that vitamin D plays an
Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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management are absent. The optimal treatment strategy is much debated in literature ranging from prophylactic calcium with or without active vitamin D supplementation in all thyroidectomy patients to selective supplementation based on biochemical parameters
Master Program on Childhood, Adolescent and Women's Endocrine Health, University of Messina School of Medicine, Italy
Interdepartmental Program of Molecular and Clinical Endocrinology, and Women's Endocrine Health, University Hospital Policlinico G. Martino, Messina, Italy
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carbonate and 7,000 IU/week of vitamin D 3 because of borderline low calcemia (8.0 mg/dl, 2.0 mmol/l). She was referred because 1 month earlier her serum TSH had reached 7.0 mU/l (reference range: 0.25-4.0) under 150 μg/day (2.3 μg/kg body weight/day) of L
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the symptoms, e.g., depression abnormal levels of vitamin D, hemoglobin, calcium, cobalamin, liver and renal function tests, blood glucose, or an insufficient corticotropin stimulation test The participants were treated with L-T 4 /L-T 3
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patients undergoing thyroidectomy, 98.4% of endocrinologists would like to restore euthyroidism before surgery, and Lugol's solution would be used in 35.9% of cases. After surgery, 53.6% would prescribe calcium and vitamin D supplementation regardless of
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highest in women with other backgrounds than Sa or African-American [ 35 , 36 , 45 ]. Low vitamin D levels have been linked with the presence of TAI [for review, cf 64 ]. However, in the Belgian context, low vitamin D levels were equally distributed
