Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
Gewählte Publikation:
Pichler, R; Maschek, W; Hatzl-Griesenhofer, M; Huber, H; Luger, C; Binder, L; Mittermayer, H.
Enterovirus infection--a possible trigger for Graves' disease?
Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2001; 113(5-6):204-207
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- Pichler Robert
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- Abstract:
- Viruses are potential environmental factors in autoimmune disease. Some evidence suggests a relationship between enteroviral infection (especially Coxsackie B virus) and autoimmunity. We investigated 21 individuals with recent onset of Graves' hyperthyroidism in regard of (subclinical) enterovirus infection. Thyrotoxic symptoms had started about two months before blood sample collection. The patients were from Upper Austria and mainly female (17/21). Their mean free thyroxin levels in blood were twice the maximum normal value and the majority achieved a euthyroid state 1 1/2 years later, after antithyroid medication. We employed a nested PCR reaction with primers of the enterovirus genome on blood samples. All were negative for RNA of the enterovirus group. Coxsackie and related viruses were not identified as a trigger factor in autoimmune thyrotoxic disease.
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- Adult -
- Adult - epidemiology
- Autoimmune Diseases - complications Autoimmune Diseases - virology
- Enterovirus B, Human - isolation and purification
- Enterovirus Infections - complications Enterovirus Infections - epidemiology Enterovirus Infections - immunology
- Female -
- Glutamate Decarboxylase - immunology
- Graves Disease - complications Graves Disease - immunology Graves Disease - virology
- Humans -
- Hyperthyroidism - virology
- Isoenzymes - immunology
- Male -
- Middle Aged -
- Polymerase Chain Reaction -
- Population Surveillance -
- RNA, Viral - blood
- Sampling Studies -
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- enterovirus
- coxsackie virus
- Graves' disease
- autoimmunity