Sub-clinical Hypothyroidism
Dr. Sanoop Kumar Sherin Sabu , MBBS., (M.D Gen. Med. Resident) (skssabu@gmail.com) Clinical features requiring treatment · personal history or family history of autoimmune disease · on drugs like (interferon, tyrosine kinase inhibitors, lithium and amiodarone) · concurrent comorbidities like atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, heart failure, dyslipidemia, infertility, and refractory anemia · Those with non specific neuropsychiatric disorders should be given a trial of levothyroxine for 3–6 months · weight gain after ruling out other causes · menorrhagia, infertility, galactorrhea, recurrent miscarriages, multicystic ovaries, · pericardial effusion, sinus bradycardia, · carpal tunnel syndrome, dementia, ataxia, and depressive disorders Monitoring of patients with subclinical hypothyroidism · Serum TSH should be monitored in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism, who are