N.V. BOLOTOVA, V.K. POLYAKOV, E.P. NOVIKOVA, N.YU. FILINA, E.G. DRONOVA

 Saratov State Medical Univerity named after V.I. Razumovsky, Saratov

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Bolotova N.V. — MD, Professor, Department of Propedeutics of Children’s Diseases, Children’s Endocrinology and Diabetology

Address: 112 Bolshaya Kazachya St., 410012 Saratov, Russian Federation, tel.: +7-903-328-79-92, e-mail: kafedranv@mail.ru

Chronic autoimmune thyroiditis (CAIT) is a group of organ-specific autoimmune thyropathies caused by a genetically determined defect in immune tolerance to thyroid antigens, resulting in its autoimmune damage. The article presents a clinical case of CAIT in a child aged 2 years and 7 months, which occurred with the absence of specific changes in the thyroid gland structure, a normal level of antibodies to thyropyroxidase (AT to TPO), but a significant increase of antibodies to thyroglobulin (AT to TG), and a late diagnosis of hypothyroidism.

Key words: autoimmune diseases, acquired hypothyroidism, chronic autoimmune thyroiditis.

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