Notes for Clinical Doctors. Series 5. Surgical treatment for Graves' disease. Regarding remnant thyroid amount and postoperative thyroid function.

Clinical Experience : GRAVES ’ DISEASE AND THYROID STORM

Thyroid Storm (TS) or Thyroid Crisis (TC) usually develops after some specific precipitating event such as infection, sepsis, trauma, cerebrovascular accident, or radioactive iodine therapy, etc. Thyroid Crisis may present as the so called masked or apapthic thyrotoxicosis (Ghobrial et al 2002), in which case signs and symptoms of the patient may be subtle, or not previously diagnosed with thyr...

Changes in salivary gland function following radioiodine therapy of thyroid diseases: A comparison of high-dose therapy for thyroid cancer and low-dose therapy for benign thyroid disease

Introduction: High-dose radioactive iodine therapy in differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) may adversely affect the salivary gland function. This study is aimed to evaluate the effect of radioactive iodine (RAI) with dose of 100 mCi in DTC patients compared to lower doses of less than 30 mCi in hyperthyroid cases. Methods: Fifty four patients (13 men and 41 women) age: 42.3±14.3 (21-71) years w...

Thyroid Drugging in Graves' Disease

Thyroid Hormone Excess: Graves’ Disease

Thyroid hormone excess due to any cause is state of thyrotoxicosis, whereas hyperthyroidism is a state of thyroid hormone excess due to hyperfunctioning of thyroid gland. The major causes of thyrotoxicosis include Graves’ disease, solitary toxic adenoma, and toxic multinodular goiter. In thyrotoxicosis, free hormone levels are invariably increased. The reverse is not true in that increased free...

Thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer in Graves' disease.

OBJECTIVE The frequency of thyroid nodules accompanying Graves' disease and the risk of thyroid cancer in presence of accompanying nodules are controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of thyroid nodules and the risk of thyroid cancer in patients operated because of graves' disease. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Five hundred and twenty-six patients in whom thyroidectomy was pe...