JUVENILE THYROTOXICOSIS

Juvenile thyrotoxicosis treated with thiouracil.

Prepubertal thyrotoxicosis is a condition of some rarity and comparatively few childhood cases have so far been recorded in the literature where the drug thiouracil has been used in treatment. A review of six cases so treated was published by Williams and Janney (1947). The present case provides a suitable example both of the clinical picture and the response to treatment. Atkinson (1938) in a ...

Juvenile thyrotoxicosis; can we do better?

Thyrotoxicosis remains a frustrating condition for the young person, family, and health professionals involved. The associated symptoms do not always suggest thyroid disease and patients can be unwell for many months before the diagnosis is made. The antithyroid drug regimen used to treat children and adolescents with thyrotoxicosis varies from one unit to another and yet the potentially life t...

Thyrotoxicosis

" Scire est nescire, nisi id me Scire alius sciret SPRING, 194:1. It would not be possible to deal at all fully with the scientific aspects of this subject in an article of reasonable length, and still less would it be possible to give a resume of the enormous literature that has grown up concerning it. My purpose is much simpler ; it is to present a record of personal experience and to offer s...

Thyrotoxicosis.

Thyrotoxicosis is a common disorder, especially in women. The most frequent cause is Graves' disease (autoimmune hyperthyroidism). Other important causes include toxic nodular hyperthyroidism, due to the presence of one or more autonomously functioning thyroid nodules, and thyroiditis caused by inflammation, which results in release of stored hormones. Antithyroid drugs are the usual initial tr...

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