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Thyroid & Hormones

97 diseases · 13 high-burden in India

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of autosomal recessive disorders…

Congenital hypothyroidism

Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is a thyroid hormone deficiency present at birth. If…

Diabetic foot

A diabetic foot disease is any condition that results directly from peripheral artery…

Dyslipidaemia (high cholesterol)

Dyslipidemia is a metabolic disorder characterized by abnormally high or low amounts of…

Goitre

A goitre is a swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland. A goitre can…

Hirsutism

Hirsutism is excessive body hair on parts of the body where hair is normally absent or…

Hypothyroidism

Hypothyroidism is an endocrine disease in which the thyroid gland does not produce enough…

Insulin resistance

Insulin resistance (IR) is a pathological response in which cells in insulin-sensitive…

Iodine deficiency

Iodine deficiency is a lack of the trace element iodine, an essential nutrient in the…

Metabolic syndrome

Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of at least three of the following five medical…

Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition, considered a disease by multiple organizations, in which…

Sheehan's syndrome

Sheehan's syndrome, also known as postpartum pituitary gland necrosis, occurs when the…

Thyroid nodule

Thyroid nodules are nodules which commonly arise within an otherwise normal thyroid…

Acromegaly

Acromegaly is a disorder that results in excess growth of certain parts of the human…

Addison's disease

Addison's disease, also known as primary adrenal insufficiency, is a rare long-term…

Adrenal crisis

Adrenal crisis, also known as Addisonian crisis or acute adrenal insufficiency, is a…

Adrenocortical carcinoma

Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is an aggressive cancer originating in the cortex of the…

Alkaptonuria

Alkaptonuria is a rare inherited genetic disease which is caused by a mutation in the HGD…

Alpha-mannosidosis

Alpha-mannosidosis is a lysosomal storage disorder, first described by Swedish physician…

Aspartylglucosaminuria

Aspartylglucosaminuria (AGU) is an inherited disease that is characterized by a decline…

Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome

Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome is an overgrowth disorder usually present at birth,…

Biotinidase deficiency

Biotinidase deficiency is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder in which biotin is…

Carcinoid syndrome

Carcinoid syndrome is a paraneoplastic syndrome comprising the signs and symptoms that…

Carney complex

Carney complex and its subsets LAMB syndrome and NAME syndrome are autosomal dominant…

Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency

Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency, sometimes shortened to CPT-II or CPT2, is…

Conn's syndrome

Primary aldosteronism (PA), also known as primary hyperaldosteronism, is the excess…

Cushing's syndrome

Cushing's syndrome is a collection of signs and symptoms due to prolonged exposure to…

Diabetes insipidus

Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a condition characterized by large amounts of dilute urine and…

Euthyroid sick syndrome

Euthyroid sick syndrome (ESS) is a state of adaptation or dysregulation of thyrotropic…

Familial hypercholesterolaemia

Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a genetic disorder characterized by high…

Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcaemia

Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia (FHH) is an inherited condition that can cause…

Farber disease

Farber disease is an extremely rare, progressive, autosomal recessive lysosomal storage…

Fucosidosis

Fucosidosis is a rare lysosomal storage disorder in which the FUCA1 gene experiences…

Galactosaemia

Galactosemia is a rare genetic metabolic disorder that affects an individual's ability to…

Gigantism

Gigantism, also known as giantism, is a condition characterized by excessive growth and…

Glutaric aciduria type 1

Glutaric acidemia type 1 (GA1) is an inherited disorder in which the body is unable to…

Graves' disease

Graves' disease, also known as toxic diffuse goiter or Basedow's disease, is an…

Graves' ophthalmopathy

Graves' ophthalmopathy, also known as thyroid eye disease (TED), is an autoimmune…

Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Hashimoto's thyroiditis, also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, Hashimoto's…

Hereditary fructose intolerance

Hereditary fructose intolerance (HFI) is an inborn error of fructose metabolism caused by…

Homocystinuria

Homocystinuria (HCU) is an inherited disorder of the metabolism of the amino acid…

Hunter syndrome

Hunter syndrome, or mucopolysaccharidosis type II, is a rare inherited lysosomal storage…

Hypercalcaemia

Hypercalcaemia, also spelt hypercalcemia (US), is a high calcium (Ca2+) level in the…

Hyperkalaemia

Hyperkalemia is an elevated level of potassium (K+) in the blood. Normal potassium levels…

Hypermagnesaemia

Hypermagnesemia is an electrolyte disorder in which there is a high level of magnesium in…

Hyperparathyroidism

Hyperparathyroidism is an increase in parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels in the blood. This…

Hyperphosphataemia

Hyperphosphatemia is an electrolyte disorder in which there is an elevated level of…

Hyperprolactinaemia

Hyperprolactinaemia is a condition characterized by abnormally high levels of prolactin…

Hyperthyroidism

Hyperthyroidism is a endocrine disease in which the thyroid gland produces excessive…

Hypoaldosteronism

Hypoaldosteronism is an endocrinological disorder characterized by decreased levels of…

Hypocalcaemia

Hypocalcemia (US) or hypocalcaemia (UK) is a medical condition characterized by low…

Hypoglycaemia

Hypoglycemia, also spelled hypoglycaemia or hypoglycæmia, sometimes called low blood…

Hypokalaemia

Hypokalemia is a low level of potassium (K+) in the blood serum. Mild low potassium does…

Hyponatraemia

Hyponatremia or hyponatraemia is a low concentration of sodium in the blood. It is…

Hypoparathyroidism

Hypoparathyroidism is decreased function of the parathyroid glands with underproduction…

Hypophosphataemia

Hypophosphatemia is an electrolyte disorder in which there is a low level of phosphate in…

Hypopituitarism

Hypopituitarism is the decreased (hypo) secretion of one or more of the eight hormones…

Insulinoma

An insulinoma is a tumour of the pancreas that is derived from beta cells and secretes…

Isovaleric acidemia

Isovaleric acidemia is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder which disrupts or…

Kallmann syndrome

Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a genetic disorder that prevents a person from starting or…

Laron syndrome

Laron syndrome (LS), also known as growth hormone insensitivity or growth hormone…

Maple syrup urine disease

Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is a rare, inherited metabolic disorder that affects the…

Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome

Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome, or mucopolysaccharidosis type VI (MPS-VI), is an inherited…

McCune–Albright syndrome

McCune–Albright syndrome is a complex genetic disorder affecting the bone, skin and…

Medullary thyroid cancer

Medullary thyroid cancer is a form of thyroid carcinoma which originates from the…

Methylmalonic acidemia

Methylmalonic acidemias, also called methylmalonic acidurias, are a group of inherited…

Morquio syndrome

Morquio syndrome, also known as mucopolysaccharidosis type IV, is a rare metabolic…

Multiple endocrine neoplasia

Multiple endocrine neoplasia is a condition which encompasses several distinct syndromes…

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 is one of a group of disorders, the multiple…

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 is a group of medical disorders associated with…

Nesidioblastosis

Nesidioblastosis is a controversial medical term for hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia…

Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency

Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency also known as OTC deficiency is the most common…

Pendred syndrome

Pendred syndrome is a genetic disorder leading to congenital bilateral sensorineural…

Pheochromocytoma

Pheochromocytoma is a rare tumor of the adrenal medulla composed of chromaffin cells and…

POEMS syndrome

POEMS syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome caused by a clone of aberrant plasma…

Precocious puberty

In medicine, precocious puberty is puberty occurring at an unusually early age. In most…

Prolactinoma

A prolactinoma is a tumor (adenoma) of the pituitary gland that produces the hormone…

Propionic acidemia

Propionic acidemia, also known as propionic aciduria or propionyl-CoA carboxylase…

Pseudohypoaldosteronism

Pseudohypoaldosteronism (PHA) is a condition that mimics hypoaldosteronism. Two major…

Pseudohypoparathyroidism

Pseudohypoparathyroidism is a rare autosomal dominant genetic condition associated…

Riedel's thyroiditis

Riedel's thyroiditis, is a chronic form of thyroiditis. It is now believed that Riedel's…

Sanfilippo syndrome

Sanfilippo syndrome, also known as mucopolysaccharidosis type III, is a rare lifelong…

Schindler disease

Schindler disease, also known as Kanzaki disease and alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase…

SIADH

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH), also known as the…

Sialidosis

Mucolipidosis type I is an inherited lysosomal storage disease that results from a…

Silver–Russell syndrome

Silver–Russell syndrome (SRS), also called Silver–Russell dwarfism, is a rare congenital…

Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome

Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome is an inborn error of cholesterol synthesis. It is an…

Subacute thyroiditis

Subacute thyroiditis refers to a temporal classification of the different forms of…

Thyroglossal cyst

A thyroglossal cyst or thyroglossal duct cyst is a fibrous cyst that forms from a…

Thyroid cancer

Thyroid cancer is cancer that develops from the tissues of the thyroid gland. It is a…

Thyroid storm

Thyroid storm is a rare but severe and life-threatening complication of hyperthyroidism.…

Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis

Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) is a rare condition featuring attacks of muscle…

Tyrosinemia

Tyrosinemia or tyrosinaemia is an error of metabolism, usually inborn, in which the body…

Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome

Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome (WFS) is defined as adrenal gland failure due to…

Wolfram syndrome

Wolfram syndrome, also called DIDMOAD, is a rare autosomal-recessive genetic disorder…

Wolman disease

Lysosomal acid lipase deficiency or Wolman disease, is an autosomal recessive inborn…

Zellweger syndrome

Zellweger syndrome is a rare congenital disorder characterized by the reduction or…

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