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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 67, 1049-1053, Copyright © 1988 by Endocrine Society

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Increase in antideoxyribonucleic acid antibody titer in postpartum aggravation of autoimmune thyroid disease

J Tachi, N Amino, Y Iwatani, H Tamaki, M Mori, M Aozasa, O Tanizawa and K Miyai
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.

Serum antidouble stranded DNA antibody levels were measured during pregnancy and after delivery in women who had postpartum exacerbations of Graves' and Hashimoto's diseases. The changes in serum anti-DNA antibody levels closely paralleled those in the serum free T4 index, significantly increasing in the thyrotoxic phase 3-8 months postpartum in women with postpartum exacerbations of thyrotoxicosis due to Graves' disease and 1-3 months postpartum in women with postpartum destructive thyrotoxicosis of Graves' and Hashimoto's diseases. No change in anti- DNA antibody level was found in women with no postpartum exacerbations of thyroid diseases, nor could we demonstrate significant increases in serum anti-DNA antibody titers in patients with thyrotoxicosis due to subacute thyroiditis or in normal pregnant and postpartum women. The changes in serum anti-DNA antibody titers may reflect some generalized immunological abnormality in women who have postpartum exacerbations of Graves' or Hashimoto's diseases.


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