In view of the approaching World Thyroid Day, every May 25th, the Lucía Íñiguez Landín Clinical Surgical Hospital welcomed specialists in Endocrinology and other related specialties. To update knowledge about the most frequent affections in Holguin‘s population related to the thyroid glands. As part of the V Territorial Thyroid Workshop.
According to Dr. Elio Edgar Lozano Alvarez, organizer of the event and specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetes. “This event is important from the point of view that it raises awareness of the entire population. The medical profession and those who have to do in one way or another with the management of thyroid pathology. Because of the social impact it causes in people with thyroid disease, in the clinical, therapeutic and diagnostic management”.
“There are still many taboos when it comes to interpreting a thyroid profile in the population. So we try to generalize this type of results to raise awareness among the population and the medical part of how these results are handled and interpreted. In the interest of creating an adequate treatment and an accurate diagnosis in this type of disease.”
This type of disease can appear in any person, which is why it should be of interest to clinicians and General Practitioners because these diseases can be diagnosed in any person.
Therefore, the management of thyroid disease should be everyone’s responsibility. Initially in order to know how to refer to the endocrinologist.
Regarding its incidence in the northeastern territory, the Master in Higher Medical Education also mentioned that it behaves similarly to the international level. Being one of the most affected by Graves-Basedow disease, better known as hyperthyroidism. A Thyroid Hyperfunction Syndrome due to an excess in the production of thyroid hormones.
It also affects Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, very common in industrialized countries. In our country, those related to iodine, since iodine deficiency can also cause this type of alteration. As well as others such as multinodular goiter, adenomas of the thyroid gland or an inflammation of the gland. Which leads to a precise treatment, in order to give a positive result to the patient.
Among the topics analyzed were the early diagnosis of congenital hypothyroidism, 35 years after the implementation of neonatal screening in Holguin. Graves-Basedow diseases in pediatric ages; clinical expressions of the thyroid glands and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez
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