Associations are known to exist between primary biliary cholangitis (autoimmune disease that causes progressive destruction of the bile ducts) and many different types of thyroid disease. Researchers recently aimed to determine if the presence of thyroid disease has any impact on hepatic complications or progression of PBC. Among patients with PBC the most common in TD patients was Hashimoto's thyroiditis. In a recent study, patients also had graves disease and multinodular goiter. The study found no significant differences in PBC patients who had TD and those who did not, when it came to comparing the histologic stages at which they were diagnosed with PBC. The researchers found no significant differences between patients with PBC who had TD and those who did not regarding hepatic decompensation events, occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver transplantation rate. TD was not found to affect PBC survival rates, either positively or negatively.
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1. True or False. There are known associations between primary biliary cholangitis and different types of thyroid disease.
4. In this same study, researchers found _______________ between patients with PBC who had TD and those who did not regarding hepatic decompensation events, occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma, or liver transplantation rate.
5. Findings from this research showed that TD __________________ PBC survival rates.
Answer Key:
1. A. True
2. B. Hashimoto's thyroiditis
3. B. False
4. B. No significant differences
5. C. Did not effect
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“Thyroid disease does not affect primary biliary cholangitis complications.”