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Impact of COVID-19 on the thyroid gland : an update

Scappaticcio, Lorenzo ; Pitoia, Fabián ; Esposito, Katherine ; Piccardo, Arnoldo ; Trimboli, Pierpaolo

In: Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, 2020, p. 13

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the pandemic of the new millennium. COVID-19 can cause both pulmonary and systemic inflammation, potentially determining multi-organ dysfunction. Data on the relationship between COVID-19 and thyroid have been emerging, and rapidly increasing since March 2020. The thyroid gland and the virus infection with its associated inflammatory-immune responses are...