ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT OF A UT OI MM UN E THYR OID IT IS I N TH E IO DIN E DE FI CI EN T REGI O
Characteristics of prevalence and clinical course of autoirrmune thyroiditis depending on patient's sex and age are given; it is indicated to be the second by incidence among the diseases of thyroid gland after iodine deficient conditions and the most freguent etiologic reason of hypothyroidism, reguiring lifelong thyroid hormones replacement therapy. Questions the most significant for clinicians being in charge of patients, suffering from autoirntune thyroiditis, are discussed: the problem of its diagnostics and reasons of iodine drugs prescription to the patients with this disease, living in the iodine deficient region