Backgroud: Several treatment options are available for patients with hyperthyroidism, such as antithyroid drugs and radioactive iodine. Recently, increasing number of patients with hyperthyroidism take lithium carbonate in combination with radioactive iodine. Numerous clinical studies have been done to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lithium carbonate in combination with radioactive iodine ...

BACKGROUND Direct transmission through skin contact is one of ways for disease transmission. Medical staffs have contact with many patients, so their hand can be a factor for the transmission of disease. Surgical scrub is a process that leads to destruction immigrant and stable microbus of hands and arms through friction washing by use of antiseptic solution prior to surgery. The aim of this st...

A great deal of circumstantial evidence has linked iodine with the rising incidence of autoimmune thyroiditis in the United States. In our investigations, we have shown directly that T cells from humans with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis proliferate in the presence of iodinated but not in the presence of noniodinated human thyroglobulin. Moreover, the proliferative response is restored when t...

background: the aim of the study was to evaluate the third trimester urinary iodine excretion and to assess its relation with newborns thyroid function. materials and methods: a total  of  208 healthy third trimester pregnant women without previous history of thyroid disease were included in the study. urinary iodine levels of mothers were measured and neonatal tsh levels were screened on the 3...

background: goiter is thyroid enlargement, which is the most common visible symptom of iodine deficiency. some studies have shown iodine deficiency in water, soil, and food in many places worldwide. we aimed to determine the prevalence of goiter and the association between urine iodine levels in children with severity and prevalence of goiter in mountainous villages of kashan city (center of ir...

The last 2 decades it has become clear that iodine deficiency has a modulating effect on the thyroid autoimmune response in humans. Also, in animals that spontaneously develop autoimmune thyroid disease, evidence is accumulating that a low iodine intake can modulate thyroid autoimmune reactivity. However, it is still not clear what the effect of a low iodine intake on thyroid autoimmune reactiv...

BACKGROUND Concern that mild iodine deficiency in pregnancy may adversely affect neurodevelopment of offspring has led to recommendations for iodine supplementation in the absence of evidence from randomised controlled trials. The primary objective of the study was to investigate the effect of iodine supplementation during pregnancy on childhood neurodevelopment. Secondary outcomes included pre...

OBJECTIVES To correlate Frey's syndrome with subjective symptoms, Minor's starch iodine test results, and infrared thermography measurements, and to discuss the utility of thermography as a quantitative diagnostic method. METHODS This study included 59 patients who underwent unilateral parotidectomy. A subjective clinical questionnaire and an objective Minor's starch iodine test were performe...

BACKGROUND Iodine deficiency can adversely affect child development including stunted growth. However, the effect of iodine supplementation or fortification on prenatal and postnatal growth in children (<18 years) is unclear. We identified the potential need for a systematic review to contribute to the evidence base in this area. To avoid duplication and inform the need for a new systematic rev...