Endocrinologia Japonica
Online ISSN : 2185-6370
Print ISSN : 0013-7219
ISSN-L : 0013-7219
Silent Thyroiditis in an Eleven-Year-Old Girl, Associated with Transient Increase in Serum IgM and Thyroid Hormone
MITSUO MASUNOJOJI KOSAKASHIGENORI NAKAMURA
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1991 Volume 38 Issue 2 Pages 219-222

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Abstract
An 11-year-old girl with silent thyroiditis associated with a transient increase in serum IgM and thyroid hormone is described. The levels of serum IgM decreased from 4.38g/L to 3.35g/L after 1.5 months at the same time as thyroid hormones returned to normal. An unidentified antecedent infection or exposure to antigen causing the increase in serum IgM might have triggered the occurrence of silent thyroiditis in this patient, although a search for viral antibodies revealed no significant titer changes during the course of the disease.
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