Recurrent Episodes of Thyrotoxicosis in a Man following Pregnancies of his Spouse with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Joint Authors
Belokovskaya, Regina
Levine, Alice C.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-4, 4 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-09-01
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
4
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Over an 8-year period, a male patient presented three times to an endocrinologist with strikingly similar presentations, including palpitations, anxiety, and tremors.
Each of his presentations occurred following either the birth of one of his two children or his wife’s late termination of pregnancy.
This patient’s illness followed the typical time course of silent thyroiditis: hyperthyroidism, followed by euthyroidism, a late hypothyroid phase, and then a complete resolution of symptoms and normalization of thyroid function tests over a period of several months.
We discuss the curious clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation, and a literature review of alternate explanations for this patient’s condition, including a discussion of the impact of seasonal shift, spousal’s autoimmune disease, stress, and evolutionary changes in males postpartum.
Although the differential diagnosis is broad in this case and the thyrotoxicosis could have coincidentally followed pregnancies of the patient’s wife, documented hormonal changes in men during postpartum period in conjunction with the timeline of the patient’s condition are suggestive of recurrent “sympathetic” postpartum thyroiditis.
To our knowledge, this is the first case report of recurrent painless thyroiditis in a man following pregnancies of his wife with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Belokovskaya, Regina& Levine, Alice C.. 2015. Recurrent Episodes of Thyrotoxicosis in a Man following Pregnancies of his Spouse with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Case Reports in Endocrinology،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1058431
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Belokovskaya, Regina& Levine, Alice C.. Recurrent Episodes of Thyrotoxicosis in a Man following Pregnancies of his Spouse with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Case Reports in Endocrinology No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1058431
American Medical Association (AMA)
Belokovskaya, Regina& Levine, Alice C.. Recurrent Episodes of Thyrotoxicosis in a Man following Pregnancies of his Spouse with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis. Case Reports in Endocrinology. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1058431
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1058431