Guan Yang Yang
Department of Thyroid and Mammary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Panzhihua University, China.
Heliyon. 2023 Mar 9;9(3):e14377. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14377. eCollection 2023 Mar.
The immune function of HIV infected patients is severely damaged, which can cause a series of autoimmune related diseases including hyperthyroidism. Hyperthyroidism includes both primary and secondary hyperthyroidism. Graves' disease is the most common primary hyperthyroidism, and Graves' disease may occur in HIV patients during immune reconstitution after antiretroviral therapy A 47-year-old woman with a history of HIV presented with symptoms related to hyperthyroidism. After antithyroid drug therapy failed, the patient and her families opted for surgical treatment. Postoperative examination revealed papillary thyroid carcinoma.
HIV感染患者的免疫功能严重受损，这可导致一系列自身免疫相关疾病，包括甲状腺功能亢进症。甲状腺功能亢进症包括原发性和继发性甲状腺功能亢进症。格雷夫斯病是最常见的原发性甲状腺功能亢进症，格雷夫斯病可能在抗逆转录病毒治疗后的HIV患者免疫重建期间出现。一名有HIV病史的47岁女性出现了与甲状腺功能亢进症相关的症状。抗甲状腺药物治疗失败后，患者及其家属选择了手术治疗。术后检查发现甲状腺乳头状癌。
