The Effect of Hydroxychloroquine Treatment in Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2013-08-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune thyroid disease, which induced chronic inflammation
of thyroid gland and destroys thyroid tissue.
Hydroxychloroquine is used as disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) for treatment of
several autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid
arthritis(RA) for more than one century.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether hydroxychloroquine is effective in treatment
of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.