June 20 is known as Hashimoto's thyroiditis awareness day. I was able to do armchair research and glean out some information about Hashimoto from Wikipedia.
Hakaru Hashimoto was a Japanese medical scientist born in 1881. He studied in Japan, Germany and England and returned to his hometown, Imaguchi, where he practised as the town doctor till his death in 1934.
He published a report on lymphomatous goiter in 1912 which was evaluated years later by English and American researchers and the disaese that he described was recognized as an independent illness and named as ' Hashimoto's thyroiditis'.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease in which the thyroid gland is gradually destroyed leading to hypothyroidism and in some cases, thyroid lymphoma. A relapsing encephalopathy occurring in association with Hashimoto's thyroiditis is known as Hashimoto's encephalopathy.
Hakaru Hashimoto was a Japanese medical scientist born in 1881. He studied in Japan, Germany and England and returned to his hometown, Imaguchi, where he practised as the town doctor till his death in 1934.
He published a report on lymphomatous goiter in 1912 which was evaluated years later by English and American researchers and the disaese that he described was recognized as an independent illness and named as ' Hashimoto's thyroiditis'.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease in which the thyroid gland is gradually destroyed leading to hypothyroidism and in some cases, thyroid lymphoma. A relapsing encephalopathy occurring in association with Hashimoto's thyroiditis is known as Hashimoto's encephalopathy.
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