Autoimmune thyroiditis in a young child with Down’s syndrome

DOI: https://doi.org/10.29296/25877305-2019-08-10
Issue: 
8
Year: 
2019

E. Shitkovskaya(1), Candidate of Medical Sciences; N. Grishkevich(1), Candidate of Medical Sciences; V. Trofimenko(1), V. Verkhorubova(2); S. Dmitriev(2); G. Strelnikov(2); 1-Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University 2-I.S. Berzon Krasnoyarsk Interdistrict Clinical Hospital Twenty

The paper describes a clinical case of primary acquired hypothyroidism developed in the presence of autoimmune thyroiditis in a one year and two-month-old infant with Down’s syndrome.
Keywords: 
pediatrics
endocrinology
hypothyroidism
Down’s syndrome
autoimmune thyroiditis
congenital heart disease
exudative myopericarditis

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