Assessment of thyroid gland elasticity with shear-wave elastography in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis patients

Purpose We aimed to investigate the use and effectiveness of Shear-Wave Elastography (SWE) in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (HT) diagnosis and compare the SWE values in HT patients with asymptomatic volunteers. Methods The thyroid gland parenchyma of 74 patients whose clinical and laboratory findings and...

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Published in:Journal of ultrasound 2020-12, Vol.23 (4), p.543-551
Main Authors: Kara, Turgay, Ateş, Fatih, Durmaz, Mehmet Sedat, Akyürek, Nesibe, Durmaz, Funda Gökgöz, Özbakır, Bora, Öztürk, Mehmet
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antibodies
Asymptomatic
Correlation analysis
Fibrosis
Laboratories
Measuring instruments
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Original Paper
Peroxidase
Thyroid gland
Thyroxine
Ultrasound
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Summary:Purpose We aimed to investigate the use and effectiveness of Shear-Wave Elastography (SWE) in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (HT) diagnosis and compare the SWE values in HT patients with asymptomatic volunteers. Methods The thyroid gland parenchyma of 74 patients whose clinical and laboratory findings and ultrasonography (US) features were indicative of HT and 75 healthy, asymptomatic participants with normal laboratory values were examined using SWE. Their thyroid parenchymal echoes and thyroid gland volume were measured using B-mode US examination. Elastographic measurements were made by plotting the boundaries of thyroid gland by hand, using Free Region of Interest (ROI). The quantitative SWE values [meters/second (m/s) and kilopascal (kPa)] were compared betweent the patients and the controls. The correlation analyses between the SWE measurements and the autoantibodies [Anti-thyroid peroxidase antibody (TPOAbs) and anti-thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAbs)], thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), freetriiodothyronine (fT3), free-thyroxine (fT4), and thyroglobulin levels were performed. Results The mean thyroid SWE measurement values of HT group were significantly higher than the asymptomatic group ( p  
ISSN:1876-7931
1971-3495
1876-7931
DOI:10.1007/s40477-020-00437-y