Though it is not yet clear why some COVID patients develop thyroiditis and some do not, researchers maintain that their findings “support the hypothesis of a direct thyroid gland involvement in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.” 

While FIF is an extremely rare condition—occurring in about one in 500,000 births—it is even more rare in triplet pregnancies.

ACR TI-RADS has previously been shown to lack sensitivity for distinguishing between benign and malignant thyroid lesions in pediatric patients.

Use of the barrier reduced associated insertion costs at one institution by 73% and insertion time by 50%. 

The results of a new trial offer “much needed progress” in the treatment of PD, experts involved in the study suggested. 

In this cohort, experts found that just 34% of surgeries were performed on symptomatic patients, which shifted their focus to other potential modes of detection.

In particular, the experts paid close attention to instances of extrathyroidal extension (ETE) on ultrasound. 

Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, Director of Interventional Echocardiography at the Columbia Structural Heart and Valve Center, discusses some of the trends in the growing use of interventional echocardiographic guidance in transcatheter structural heart procedures.