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Patient Portal – Wilmington Endocrinology Patient Portal HealthCare Support Portal facilitates better communication with your physician’s office by providing convenient 24 x 7 access from the comfort and privacy of your own home or office. Log into the Patient Information Portal Using your secure portal you will be able to:
1. Using your web browser, go to www.wilmingtonendo.com click ‘enter site’ and to the left you will click on the Patient Portal box where you will use your username and password to login. 2. You may change your password by clicking on change/reset password, or you may login with the username and password that our office supplied.
Log into the Patient Information Portal Using your secure portal you will be able to: Communicate with us, securely and efficiently. Review your lab results. Request appointments, see date and time of upcoming appointments. Manage your personal …
Hashimoto’s disease, also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, is an autoimmune disease where the body’s immune system attacks the thyroid gland . This attack on the gland can lead to inflammation and ultimately, the gland not working appropriately (hypothyroidism). This inflammation can also lead to thyroid nodule formation. As with other thyroid diseases, our office can diagnosis Hashimoto’s disease with blood work. The blood work for Hashimoto’s is TSH, free T3, free T4, thyroidperoxidase antibody and antithyroglobulin antibody.
Options include undergoing Radioiodine treatment or to be evaluated with serial bloodwork and neck ultrasounds. For more information on Thyroid Cancer visit:
Hypothyroidism means that you do not have enough thyroid hormone in your body. It results from having an underactive thyroid gland. It can result from autoimmune thyroiddisease, thyroid surgery, certain medications, neck radiation, or other factors. Hypothyroidism causes your body to slow down, in turn causing the following symptoms: fatigue, weight gain, cold intolerance, constipation, cold hands and feet, hair loss, brittle nails, etc. If hypothyroidism goes untreated, the signs and symptoms can gradually worsen.
About 20-30% of patients can develop remission. This means their thyroid gland can normalize and the antithyroid medication can be stopped. These patients are at risk for relapse. If you are diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, you should tell your family members because thyroid disease runs in families.
Follicular thyroid carcinoma includes follicular variant of papillary car cinoma, which is difficult to diagnose with FNA biopsy. Medullary and Anaplastic carcinomas are more rare and aggressive thyroid cancers.
For the majority of patients, we do not know what causes them to develop thyroid cancer. However, your risk may be increased if you have history of radiation to your head or neck, a family history of thyroid cancer, or are older than 40 years of age. The main types of thyroid cancer include: Papillary thyroid carcinoma, Follicular thyroid cancer, ...
If you are diagnosed with hypothyroidism, you should tell your family members because thyroid disease runs in families. For more information on Hypothyroidism: Visit the Hypothyroidism section on the Thyroid.org website. Visit the Hypothyroidism section on the Mayo Clinic website.