PMID- 33950404 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220110 LR - 20230328 IS - 1573-2606 (Electronic) IS - 1389-9155 (Print) IS - 1389-9155 (Linking) VI - 22 IP - 4 DP - 2021 Dec TI - New aspects in the pathogenesis and management of subacute thyroiditis. PG - 1027-1039 LID - 10.1007/s11154-021-09648-y [doi] AB - Subacute thyroiditis (SAT) is a thyroid inflammatory disease, whose pathogenesis and determinants of the clinical course were unclear for many decades. The last few years have brought many clinically significant new data on the epidemiology, pathogenesis and management of SAT. Several human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles were demonstrated not only to increase the risk of SAT, but also to correlate with SAT clinical course and determine the risk of recurrence. The world-wide epidemic of the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has provided new observations that the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) can be a potent SAT-triggering factor, and that the clinical course of SAT in patients affected by COVID-19 is different from a typical one. Additionally, many new trends in the clinical course are emerging. In the last years, painless course of SAT is more and more often described, constituting a special challenge in patients hospitalized due to COVID-19. Despite an excellent availability of diagnostic methods, several difficulties in SAT differential diagnosis can be currently encountered and the proper diagnosis and treatment is frequently delayed. False positive diagnoses of SAT in patients with malignancies of poor prognosis constitute a life-threatening problem. Taking into account all the new aspects of SAT pathogenesis and of its clinical course, the new - modified - SAT diagnosis criteria have been proposed. CI - (c) 2021. The Author(s). FAU - Stasiak, Magdalena AU - Stasiak M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2910-7691 AD - Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital, Research Institute, 281/289 Rzgowska St, 93-338, Lodz, Poland. FAU - Lewinski, Andrzej AU - Lewinski A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8748-3337 AD - Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital, Research Institute, 281/289 Rzgowska St, 93-338, Lodz, Poland. andrzej.lewinski@umed.lodz.pl. AD - Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Medical University of Lodz, 281/289 Rzgowska St., 93-338, Lodz, Poland. andrzej.lewinski@umed.lodz.pl. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20210505 PL - Germany TA - Rev Endocr Metab Disord JT - Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders JID - 100940588 SB - IM MH - *COVID-19 MH - Humans MH - SARS-CoV-2 MH - *Thyroid Diseases MH - *Thyroiditis, Subacute/diagnosis/epidemiology/therapy PMC - PMC8096888 OTO - NOTNLM OT - COVID-19 OT - Clinical course OT - HLA OT - Recurrence OT - SARS-CoV-2 OT - Subacute thyroiditis COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2021/05/06 06:00 MHDA- 2022/01/11 06:00 PMCR- 2021/05/05 CRDT- 2021/05/05 12:38 PHST- 2021/03/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/05/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/01/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/05/05 12:38 [entrez] PHST- 2021/05/05 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1007/s11154-021-09648-y [pii] AID - 9648 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s11154-021-09648-y [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Rev Endocr Metab Disord. 2021 Dec;22(4):1027-1039. doi: 10.1007/s11154-021-09648-y. Epub 2021 May 5.