Arti2 2022. Seminario Tiroides

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Okay, great. Good morning. Hello Leila Ivana, are you listening? Well, my name is Claudia Alegro, I'm a general practitioner. Today we're going to talk about the thyroid gland. We're going to talk about the hormones it produces, how these hormones are synthesized, how they are released and transported in the blood, what their physiological actions are,

and the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis.

The thyroid gland is one of the largest glands in our body; it can weigh up to 20 grams. It is located surrounding the trachea, as we see in the figure on the left, and it has a butterfly shape. It has two lobes. In the cursor, there is a right lobe and a left lobe joined by an isthmus. Yes,

and what we see in this representation is the pyramidal lobe, which is a remnant of the thyroglossal duct. Yes, it is not usually visible. As we said, it is in the lower part of the neck, below the larynx, surrounding the trachea. And if you remember the class on the mediastinum and In the neck, we see that towards the

back we have the esophagus. Yes, so these relationships of the gland are important. We see through it these little round things, the four like lentils or beans, are the parathyroid glands, which are the ones that produce the parathyroid hormone that we saw in the calcium-phosphorus metabolism. There is also the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which