The aims of the present study were to analyze the outcomes of pregnancy, after 131I treatment, in patients of reproductive age with Graves' hyperthyroidism and to investigate the effects, if any, of the 131I treatment on the mothers and newborns. From 2009 to 2014, 257 pregnant female patients with Graves' hyperthyroidism in the outpatients at the Department of Nuclear Medicine and 166 healthy ...

131I-MIBG therapy for neuroendocrine tumours may be dose limited. The common range of applied cumulative activities is 10-40 GBq. We report the uneventful cumulative administration of 111 GBq (= 3 Ci) 131I-MIBG in a patient with metastatic paraganglioma. Ten courses of 131I-MIBG therapy were given within six years, accomplishing symptomatic, hormonal and tumour responses with no serious adverse...

M195, a mouse monoclonal antibody reactive with the early myeloid antigen CD33, has been shown to target leukemia cells in patients and to reduce large leukemic burdens when labeled with 131I. A complementarity-determining region-grafted, humanized version (HuM195) has demonstrated similar targeting of leukemia cells without immunogenicity. We have studied two applications of therapy with 131I-...

Radiation Protection in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Radio Oncology is of the utmost importance. Radioiodine therapy is a frequently used and effective method for the treatment of thyroid disease. Prior to each therapy the radioactivity of the [131I]-capsule must be determined to prevent misadministration. This leads to a significant radiation exposure to the staff. We describe an alternativ...

The preparation of N-succinimidyl-4-[131I]iodobenzoate (SIB) has been optimized using an alternative technique employing Cu(I)-assisted radioiododebromination that produces p-[131I]iodobenzoic acid. The reaction conditions were optimized and radiochemical purity of more than 90% was obtained when using 160 degrees C, 60 min reaction time and a [CuCl]/[p-bromobenzoic acid] relation of about 10(-...

UNLABELLED Due to its excellent tolerability and low incidence of side effects, 131I therapy has been the treatment of choice for benign thyroid diseases for over 60 years. A potentially increased risk of malignancies due to this therapy is however still subject of debate. AIM To review the literature pertaining to 131I therapy of benign thyroid diseases in order to establish whether there is...

There is no comparative cost-utility study between 131I therapy and antithyroid drugs (ATD) therapy for Graves' disease, though 131I therapy has higher remission rate and less side effects. The objective of the study was to analyze the cost-utility of ATD therapy versus 131I therapy by calculating life-long medical costs and utility, based on the responses of Graves' disease patients to questio...

As we have reported recently, the human neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-SH is able to take up and store m-iodobenzylguanidine (mIBG). This is in contrast to several other neuroblastoma cell lines, among which are SK-N-LO cells. Both cell lines were used in cell killing experiments with unlabeled and radioactive-labeled mIBG. Using 1-200 microCi m-[131I]IBG (1 h incubation time), only SK-N-SH cells...

We have investigated the therapeutic efficacy of a single injection of 131I-labeled murine mouse monoclonal antibody (NP-4) against carcinoembryonic antigen using the human colonic tumor xenograft, GW-39, grown in the cheek pouches of adult hamsters. Therapeutic efficacy was dependent on the dose of radioactivity, the specificity of the antibody for the tumor, and the size of the tumor when the...

HTLV-I carriers or patients with HTLV-I associated myelopathy (HAM) are prone to immune-mediated inflammatory disorders. We present a 44-year-old female with HAM who developed Graves' disease. She developed severe Graves' ophthalmopathy shortly after 131I therapy, concurrently with a remarkable increase in TSH-receptor antibody titer. Ophthalmopathy was aggravated in spite of prednisolone thera...