Thyroid Disorders: Current Status and Future Prospects
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular and Translational Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 503
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thyroid diseases represent the most prevalent hormonal disorders in both adults and children. Simultaneously, normal thyroid function is crucial during every period of life: in fetal life, thyroid hormones are necessary for the development and differentiation of each tissue; during the developmental age, they determine the proper growth and maturation of the brain and bone; and at every age, they regulate metabolism and ensure efficient adaptation to the environment and metabolic needs. Various forms of thyroid dysfunction exist, including a deficiency or excess of thyroid hormones; this can have long-term effects on the health and development of individuals, depending on the age of the patient at the onset of disease and its severity. The wide availability of novel laboratory techniques and imaging methods now enables the quick diagnosis of thyroid diseases, thus enabling their early treatment. However, the treatment of thyroid diseases mainly focuses on correcting hormonal function and, less often, eliminating the cause of the disease. On the other hand, not all of these disorders result from thyroid disease and require treatment.
Among these disorders, autoimmune thyroid diseases dominate; these are diagnosed in increasingly younger patients, including in infancy, and are chronic diseases that can affect an individual’s whole life. Patients who are diagnosed in childhood and require lifelong treatment require their therapy to transition fluently from pediatric to adult medical care.
This Special Issue aims to provide an overview of current knowledge regarding thyroid diseases, their diagnosis and treatment, as well as prospects for implementing novel effective therapy methods.
We are particularly interested in original research, but also encourage the submission of articles presenting cases (or series) and will accept review papers, systematic reviews or meta-analyses.
We address our invitation to pediatric endocrinologists, endocrinologists, gynecologists, endocrine surgeons, and pathologists in particular, and specialists in nuclear medicine.
Dr. Anna Małgorzata Kucharska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thyroid diseases
- autoimmune thyroid diseases
- hypothyroidism
- hyperthyroidism
- treatment
- children
- adults
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