Background: Patients with Graves’ disease exhibit a considerable rate of relapse after treatment with antithyroid drugs and require ablative therapy. Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate variables which can be used as prognostic factors in predicting the outcome of Graves’ disease after treatment with antithyroid drugs. Methods: Age, sex, duration of antithyroid drug therapy, pr...

In this report, the clinical course and treatment response of 210 patients with Grawes’ disease referred to the research institute for nuclear medicine were studied. The disease was more common in 3rd and 4th decades and more frequent in women (F/M=4). Treatment response with antithyroid drugs was about 50%, whereas 80% of the patients treated by I-131 showed positive response. There was ...

To study autoimmunity among thyroid diseases, 397 thyroid patients (age 30 (13) years; M/F 75/322) from two referral centres in Bangladesh and 94 healthy controls (age 30 (13) years; M/F 24/70) were studied for antimicrosomal and antithyroglobulin antibodies. Thyroid patients were clinically grouped as suspected autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD), non-autoimmune, or indeterminate groups (where n...

SINCE thiouracil was introduced to clinical therapeutics in I943, antithyroid treatment for thyrotoxicosis has widely increased and proved more and more effective as the years have passed, partly as the result of experience but also through the use of more effective agents, such as carbimazole and methimazole. It is thus possible now to assess their relative value in comparison with surgical tr...

A congenital defect of the scalp is an uncommon entity occurring in one in 2000 deliveries. It may present certain diagnostic problems in the newborn infants. In this era of invasive intrapartum fetal monitoring, Obstetricians should be made aware of this entity as in its limited form aplasia cutis congenita (ACC) could easily be mistaken for damage inflicted by spiral electrodes. The late scar...

background: patients with graves’ disease exhibit a considerable rate of relapse after treatment with antithyroid drugs and require ablative therapy.   objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate variables which can be used as prognostic factors in predicting the outcome of graves’ disease after treatment with antithyroid drugs.   methods: age, sex, duration of antithyroid drug therapy...

OBJECTIVE To present a case study of Hashimoto's encephalopathy. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Nottingham University Hospital, UK. PATIENTS Two adolescent females presented with encephalopathy and raised venous lactate. Both had subtle signs of neurocognitive deterioration before initial presentation. Extensive investigation revealed elevated antithyroid anti...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The possibility that a disorder of immunity might have a role in the mechanism of local inflammatory alterations leading to spontaneous cervical artery dissection (sCAD) has been recently advocated. METHODS We explored this hypothesis in a case-control study, including patients with sCAD (n=29) and patients with non-CAD ischemic stroke (non-CAD; n=29). Serum levels of a...