Which patients with thyroid disease should be treated and followed-up by a general practitioner

Abstract

Thyroid disease occurs in the population with a high prevalence. With wider availability of laboratory and imaging examinations, more tyreopathies are diagnosed.

The practitioner sends the patient to an endocrinological examination in the presence of thyroid gland disorders, bruises or nodal changes in the thyroid gland. After the endocrinological examination, uncomplicated and stabilized patients with euphunic autoimmune thyroiditis, compensated hypothyroidism, remission of thyrotoxicosis or subacute thyroiditis and clinically insignificant structural abnormalities of the thyroid gland may be sent back to a practitioner.

Keywords

• thyroid disease
• hypothyroidism
• thyrotoxicosis
• endocrinological examination
• follow-up