{"id":3061187,"date":"2022-01-04T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/?p=3061187"},"modified":"2023-03-16T06:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T11:03:15","slug":"hypothyroidism-mnemonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/hypothyroidism-mnemonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypothyroidism Mnemonic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are various causes of hypothyroidism, but the most common one is an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto&#8217;s thyroiditis. This condition occurs when the body&#8217;s immune system attacks and destroys the thyroid gland.<\/p>\n<p>Other causes of hypothyroidism include certain medications, surgery, radiation therapy, and iodine deficiency.<\/p>\n<h2>Causes of hypothyroidism<\/h2>\n<p>One way to remember the causes of hypothyroidism is with the mnemonic acronym <strong>&#8220;HARRIS MD.&#8221;<\/strong> This stands for Hormone resistance syndrome, Autoimmune disease, Drugs, Malignancy, Radiation therapy, Reidel thyroiditis, Iodine deficiency, and Surgery.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>H<\/strong> &#8211; Hormone Resistance syndrome : Thyroid releasing hormone resistance<\/li>\n<li><strong>A <\/strong>&#8211; Autoimmune thyroiditis : Autoimmune destruction of the thyroid gland (Hashimoto\u2019s thyroiditis).<\/li>\n<li><strong>R <\/strong>&#8211; Radiation Therapy : Radioiodine ablation and traditional radiotherapy to the neck<\/li>\n<li><strong>R<\/strong> &#8211; Reidel thyroiditis : An infiltrative thyroid disorder<\/li>\n<li><strong>I <\/strong>&#8211; Iodine Deficiency : lack of iodine required for <a href=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/thyroid-hormone-synthesis\/\">thyroid hormone synthesis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>S<\/strong> &#8211; Surgery : Total thyroidectomy<\/li>\n<li><strong>M<\/strong> &#8211; Malignancy :\u00a0 Lymphoma, metastatic disease to the thyroid, thyroid malignancy<\/li>\n<li><strong>D<\/strong> &#8211; Drugs : Amiodarone, Lithium, immune-checkpoint inhibitors (nivolumab)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Infographic<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/causes-of-hypothyroidism-mnemonic.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/causes-of-hypothyroidism-mnemonic.png 864w, https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/causes-of-hypothyroidism-mnemonic-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/causes-of-hypothyroidism-mnemonic-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-content\/uploads\/causes-of-hypothyroidism-mnemonic-624x832.png 624w\" alt=\"causes of hypothyroidism mnemonic\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>Chaker L, Bianco AC, Jonklaas J, Peeters RP. Hypothyroidism. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016%2FS0140-6736(17)30703-1\">Lancet. 2017 Sep 23;390(10101):1550-1562.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are various causes of hypothyroidism, but the most common one is an autoimmune disease called Hashimoto&#8217;s thyroiditis. This condition occurs when the body&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3061261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3061187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mnemonics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061187"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4415995,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061187\/revisions\/4415995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3061261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myendoconsult.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}