2022年1月15日 · Although anyone can develop Hashimoto's disease, it's most common among middle-aged women. The primary treatment is thyroid hormone replacement. Hashimoto's disease is also known as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and chronic autoimmune thyroiditis.

2021年4月21日 · WHAT IS HASHIMOTO’S THYROIDITIS? Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis or autoimmune thyroiditis. It is an autoimmune disorder. This means you develop antibodies [thyroid peroxidase (TPO) and/or thyroglobulin (Tg) antibodies] that damage your thyroid gland.

2023年6月26日 · Hashimoto’s disease is a chronic autoimmune disease that affects your thyroid gland. It can cause lower-than-normal levels of thyroid hormone in your body. This affects several areas of your body and causes symptoms like fatigue, weight gain and constipation.

Hashimoto thyroiditis can cause your thyroid to not make enough thyroid hormone. It's an autoimmune disease. It occurs when your body makes antibodies that attack the cells in your thyroid.

Hashimoto’s disease is an autoimmune disorder that can cause hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid. Rarely, the disease can cause hyperthyroidism, or overactive thyroid. The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland in the front of your neck. In people with Hashimoto’s disease.

2023年10月26日 · What Is Hashimoto's Thyroiditis? Also called Hashimoto's disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks healthy or normal cells.

2022年1月15日 · Hypothyroidism associated with Hashimoto's disease is treated with a synthetic hormone called levothyroxine (Levoxyl, Synthroid, others). The synthetic hormone works like the T-4 hormone naturally produced by the thyroid. The treatment goal is to restore and maintain adequate T-4 hormone levels and improve symptoms of hypothyroidism.

Hashimoto thyroiditis is autoimmune inflammation of the thyroid. Patients sometimes have other autoimmune disorders. Thyroxine (T4) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels initially are normal, but later, T4 declines and TSH rises, and patients may become clinically hypothyroid.