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Archivos argentinos de pediatría
versión impresa ISSN 0325-0075versión On-line ISSN 1668-3501
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PACIN, Mirta. Severe hyperlipidemia, secondary to hypothyroidism due to atrophic thyroiditis in a girl. Arch. argent. pediatr. [online]. 2009, vol.107, n.1, pp.53-56. ISSN 0325-0075.
We present a 5 years 8 months old girl with severe hyperlipidemia (high total cholesterol, and low density lipoprotein values, and also, ectopic fat pericardial deposit). She was treated with diet and cholestyramine, without diagnosis of her disease etiology. Growth detention, weight loss, retarded bone age and clinical signs of hypometabolism were recorded. Thyroid profile confirms hypothyroidism diagnosis. Based on positive anti-thyroid antibodies and clearly reduced thyroid volume, a diagnosis of autoimmune atrophic thyroiditis was made, a very unusual pathology in early infancy. Linear growth was affected by late diagnosis.
Palabras clave : Growth detention; Primary acquired hypothyroidism; Autoimmune atrophic thyroiditis; Ectopic fat.