Inorganic Iodide Therapy for T<SUB>3</SUB>-thyrotoxicosis

Does preoperative iodide treatment for thyrotoxicosis bring about involution?

It is generally believed that preoperative iodide decreases the hyperplasia of the toxic thyroid gland. Histometric studies of glands from thyrotoxic patients pretreated with propranolol alone compared with those from patients pretreated with propranolol and iodide failed to confirm this. Although histological appearances and volume percentage measurement of component tissues suggested that the...

Releasing Hormone Following Inorganic Iodide

Eight euthyroid subjects were administered 500ƒÊg of thyrotropin-releasing hormone intravenously before and after the administration of 10mg potassium iodide daily for 7 days. Basal serum concentrations of TSH and the response of TSH to TRH were significantly increased following iodide treatment, while serum levels of T4 and T3 did not differ significantly. It is suggested that the administrati...

Radioiodine therapy in thyrotoxicosis.

One hundred and two patients (81 females, 21 males) suffering from thyrotoxicosis as diagnosed clinically and confirmed by laboratory investigations including the estimation of thyroid hormones in blood were treated with radioiodine (I-131) at the University of Minnesota Hospital between 1976 and 1986. Nine (9%) patients needed two and 3 (3%) patients needed three therapeutic doses of I-131. Th...

Thyrotoxicosis developing during cyclophosphamide therapy.

Clinical Experience with Using Inorganic Nonradioactive Iodine/Iodide

I have been interested in iodine supplementation for years. I have a holistic family practice in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Michigan resides in the Goiter Belt of the United States where the soil is deficient in iodine. Although I long suspected iodine deficiency in many of my patients, my initial uses of potassium iodide gave suboptimal results. Some patients did improve, but many did not noti...