Relationship of chronic hepatitis C with interferon treatment and thyroid diseases / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

ABSTRACT

The article explores the relationship of the hepatitis C virus infection with interferon treatment and thyroid diseases and reviews the subtypes of the thyroid diseases.Autoimmune and nonautoimmune cases of thyroiditis are often seen in patients with chronic hepatitis C while undergoing interferon treatment,especially in females with positive thyroid autoantibodies.Graves' disease is very rare.The thyroid function may be as a transient thyrotoxicosis,then followed by hypothyroidism.The thyroid function in patients with nonautoimmune thyroiditis is usually easy to recover.