Antithyroid drug regimen for treating Graves' hyperthyroidism
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Antithyroid Drug Therapy for Graves' Disease and Implications for Recurrence
Graves' disease (GD) is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism worldwide. Current therapeutic options for GD include antithyroid drugs (ATD), radioactive iodine, and thyroidectomy. ATD treatment is generally well accepted by patients and clinicians due to some advantages including normalizing thyroid function in a short time, hardly causing hypothyroidism, and ameliorating immune disorder whi...
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CONTEXT Neutropenia secondary to antithyroid drug (ATD) therapy in Graves' disease (GD) is well recognized. However, the effect of hyperthyroidism, prior to and after ATD therapy, on neutrophil counts in patients with GD is unclear. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence of neutropenia in newly diagnosed untreated GD and the effect of ATD on the neutrophil count. DESIGN Prospective study from Au...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd003420.pub4