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Table 2 Mechanisms and disorders associated with abnormal iodide transport

From: Iodide transport: implications for health and disease

Etiology Conditions, drugs or environmental agents affecting this step in iodide transport Manifestations
Deficient nutritional iodine intake Iodine deficiency disorders All ages:
• Goiter
Mother/fetus:
• Abortion
• Stillbirth
• Congenital anomalies
• Perinatal mortality
Newborn:
• Infant mortality
• Cretinism with neurological deficits and mental retardation
Child and adolescent:
• Growth retardation and delayed puberty
Child, adolescent and adult:
• Impaired mental function
• Hypothyroidism
• Increased risk to develop iodide induced-hyperthyroidism and toxic nodular goiter after exposure to iodine
Abnormal basal iodide uptake NIS mutations (autosomal recessive) Congenital hypothyroidism, typically with goiter. Iodide-trapping defect with little or no uptake of radioactive iodide both at the thyroid and salivary gland level
Perchlorate, thiocyanate and nitrates Increased risk of goiter development and hypothyroidism, specially in iodine deficient populations
Goitrogens (soy and other flavonoids, glucosinolates and cyanogenic glucosides) Increased risk of goiter development and hypothyroidism in iodine deficient populations
Apical iodide efflux Pendred syndrome. Mutations in the SLC26A4 gene (autosomal recessive) Sensorineural hearing loss, variable phenotype of goiter and hypothyroidism and partial organification defect
Congenital hypothyroidism with atrophic thyroid gland associated with SLC26A4 mutations (autosomal recessive) Congenital hypothyroidism
Organification and coupling Tg gene mutations (autosomal recessive) Congenital hypothyroidism and/or variable degrees of goiter and hypothyroidism with low Tg levels
TPO gene mutations (autosomal recessive) Congenital hypothyroidism and/or variable degrees of goiter and hypothyroidism with partial or total organification defects
Mutations in DUOX2 or DUOXA2 (autosomal recessive or dominant) Transient or permanent congenital hypothyroidism
Anti-thyroid medications (i.e. PTU, methimazole, carbimazole) Medication-induced hypothyroidism
Recycling of iodide Mutations in DEHAL1 (autosomal recessive) Congenital hypothyroidism, goiter, increased MIT and DIT serum levels and severe urinary loss of MIT and DIT
Thyroid hormone degradation exceeds thyroid synthetic capacity Overexpression of D3 in hemangiomas and gastrointestinal stromal tumors Consumptive hypothyroidism with elevated rT3 and resistance to treatment with physiological doses of levothyroxine
Increased stimulation or constitutive activity of the TSHR or downstream pathways TSHR stimulating immunoglobulins Graves’ disease
Transient congenital hyperthyroidism  
TSHR activating mutations Sporadic congenital or autosomal dominant familial non-autoimmune hyperthyroidism (germline mutations)
Toxic adenomas (somatic mutations)  
Pregnancy hCG-induced gestational hyperthyroidism
Somatic, activating mutations of G Toxic nodular hyperthyroidism and hyperthyroidism in McCune Albright syndrome
Decreased stimulation or inactivation of the TSHR or downstream pathways Presence of TSHR blocking immunoglobulins Hypothyroidism
Inactivating mutations of the TSHR (autosomal recessive) Resistance to TSH with overt or compensated hypothyroidism
Inactivating G mutations Hypothyroidism in the context of pseudohypoparathyroidism type Ia
Iodide mediated alterations in thyroid function Iodine containing solutions Transient hypothyroidism (Wolff-Chaikoff effect)
  In iodine deficiency: Hyperthyroidism (Jod-Basedow)
Iodine containing contrast agents (iodine containing IV contrasts) Transient hypothyroidism (Wolff-Chaikoff effect)
In iodine deficiency: Hyperthyroidism (Jod-Basedow)
Amiodarone Amiodarone induced thyrotoxicosis (AIT): type 1: iodine inducedthyrotoxicosis, Jod-Basedow type 2: thyroiditis
  Amiodarone induced hypothyroidism (AMH); often associated with underlying autoimmune thyroid disease
Other defects in thyroid hormone release Lithium Hypothyroidism due to decrease release of T4