Vol. 22 (1) 2001 Neuro endocrinology letters

Hashimoto's disease during interferon-alpha therapy in a patient with pre-treatment negative anti-thyroid autoantibodies and with the specific genetic susceptibility to the thyroid disease.

OBJECTIVES: The authors described a case of Hashimoto's disease during interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) treatment for chronic viral C hepatitis in a patient with the specific genetic susceptibility associated with the thyroid disease.

RESULTS: A 60-year-old woman with chronic active viral C hepatitis (HCV genotype = .....