[Assessment of the usefulness of the presence of antithyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPOAb) in patients with end-stage renal failure treated with hemodialysis]

Pol Arch Med Wewn. 2004 Jun;111(6):687-91.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

Due to a high frequency of autoimmune diseases in patients with ESRF we observed for 4 years 8 patients treated with HD with high level of TPOAb and 8 patients without TPOAb. Aim of the study was to estimate the role of TPOAb as a prognostic factor of hypothyreosis. We observed in a 4-years follow-up significant increase of TSH (p<0.05) in patients with high TPOAb level. fT3 and fT4 did't change in this time. In the group without TPOAb we observed significant (p<0.01) decrease of fT3 probably due to the disturbances in T4 to T3 conversion. Our results don't permit us to draw a final conclusions but induce us to further observation of hypothyreosis development in patients with ESRF.

Publication types

  • Clinical Trial
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Autoantibodies / blood*
  • Autoantibodies / immunology
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Iodide Peroxidase / immunology*
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / immunology*
  • Kidney Failure, Chronic / therapy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Renal Dialysis*
  • Risk Factors
  • Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / blood
  • Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / immunology*
  • Thyrotropin / blood
  • Thyroxine / blood
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Autoantibodies
  • Thyrotropin
  • Iodide Peroxidase
  • Thyroxine