When antithyroid positivity was compared with the percentage of hypothyroid, hyperthyroid and euthyroid, out of 60, 14 were hypothyroid and
antithyroid antibody positive which comes roughly about 93.3 % of hypothyroid cases with FNAC proven thyroiditis were tested positive for anti-thyroperoxidase antibody.
Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and free thyroid hormone levels were in the reference range, with high
antithyroid antibody titer.
The main diagnostic criterion is
antithyroid antibody positivity.
The patient's clinical activity score (CAS) was determined, and thyroid function tests,
antithyroid antibody levels, and B lymphocytes were evaluated.
Taccaliti et al., "
Antithyroid antibody tests for hyperthyroidism.
Furthermore, the binding is relatively specific, as
antithyroid antibody and antibodies from healthy individuals show no evidence of binding to embryos.
Effect of L-thyroxine administration on
antithyroid antibody levels, lipid profile, and thyroid volume in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
Agarwal MM, Dhatt GS, Punnose J, Bishawi B, Zayed R.Thyroid function abnormalities and
antithyroid antibody prevalence in pregnant women at high risk for gestational diabetes mellitus.
Hashimoto's encephalopathy is the term used to describe a steroid-responsive encephalopathy of presumed autoimmune origin characterised by high serum
antithyroid antibody titres.
In line with this hypothesis, it has been shown that pregnancy rate of women with
antithyroid antibody was the same as normal controls but they experienced high rates of abortion afterwards (7,17).
This suggests that, based on
antithyroid antibody status alone, smokers would tend to have higher [T.sub.4] levels than nonsmokers.
Factors that proved unrelated to loss of vision in patients with severe Graves' ophthalmopathy included age, body weight, type of thyroid dysfunction, smoking status, duration of Graves' ophthalmopathy and thyroid disease,
antithyroid antibody levels, and the presence of double vision or ocular proptosis.