Thyroid Disease : Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome - Treatments In conventional medicine perspective

Home of Kyle J. Norton for The Better of Living & Living Health Thyroid is one of the largest endocrine glands found in the neck, below the Adam’s Apple with the function of regulating the body use of energy, make of proteins by producing its hormones as a result of the stimulation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) produced by the anterior pituitary.
Thyroid disease is defined as a condition of malfunction of thyroid. Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland is over active and produces too much thyroid hormones. Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the thyroid gland is under active and produces very little thyroid hormones. Thyroid cancer is defined as condition in which the cells in the thyroid gland have become cancerous.
Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome
Thyroid hormone resistance syndrome is defined as a condition of which affected individuals have elevated serum thyroid hormone levels and inappropriately normal or elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) but are usually clinically euthyroid and require no treatment. Selective pituitary resistance to thyroid hormone (PRTH) is characterized by resistance in the pituitary gland but not in peripheral tissues(a).

E. Treatments
1. The table
Table. Suggested therapeutic approaches for resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) patients.

2. Limitation
According to the study by the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, the thyroid hormone resistance syndromes are disorders in which the body’s tissues are resistant to the effects of thyroid hormone. Generalized resistance to thyroid hormone (GRTH) is characterized by resistance in the pituitary gland and in most or all of the peripheral tissues. Affected individuals have elevated serum thyroid hormone levels and inappropriately normal or elevated thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) but are usually clinically euthyroid and require no treatment. Selective pituitary resistance to thyroid hormone (PRTH) is characterized by resistance in the pituitary gland but not in peripheral tissues. Patients have elevated serum thyroid hormone levels and normal or elevated TSH levels and are clinically thyrotoxic. Therapy is usually necessary, but current choices are not completely satisfactory. Selective peripheral resistance to thyroid hormone (PerRTH) is characterized by resistance in peripheral tissues but not in the pituitary. The only patient thus far described had normal serum thyroid hormone and TSH levels but was clinically hypothyroid and improved with thyroid hormone administration. All of these disorders are probably more common than is generally recognized and are often misdiagnosed and inappropriately treated. GRTH, in most cases studied, results from a mutation in the thyroid hormone receptor beta gene causing an amino acid substitution in or a partial or complete deletion of the thyroid hormone-binding domain of the receptor. The causes of PRTH and PerRTH remain to be determined(32). Other studies indicated that in this age of rapidly advancing knowledge, it is reasonable to expect that the not too distant future will bring specific treatments for RTH. This will probably not be in the form of gene therapy as the dominant expression would require excision of the defective gene. The most simple genetic approach, one within the realm of current technology, is the selection of an oocyte from the affected mother that does not harbor the abnormal allele for in vitro fertilization followed by implantation into the donor. This insures a fetus without RTH but does not guarantee a normal pregnancy and fetal development. The development of TH agonists and antagonists that are TR-isoform specific would allow the stimulation or blockade of specific tissue effects that are perturbed in a given individual with RTH(33).
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(31) http://www.hotthyroidology.com/editorial_79.html
(32) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8475937
(33) http://jcem.endojournals.org/content/84/2/401.full
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