Nonetheless, clinicians caring for affected patients are aware of the potential dangers of hyperthyroidism and desire to offer their patients the optimal level of management. Surveys of experts ...
Patients with iodine-induced subclinical and clinical hyperthyroidism should be carefully medicated to normalize thyroid function before radioiodine treatment for multinodular goiters, according ...
Although patients who undergo this procedure retain some thyroid function, the incidence and potential risk factors for postoperative hypothyroidism remain unclear. Shirley Su and colleagues have ...
HYPOTHYROIDISM is a rare late complication of Graves's disease. A committee of the Clinical Society of London in 1888 1 noted that "in a few cases the appearance of the symptoms of myxoedema has ...
Changes Clinical Practice: Male patients with severe biochemical hyperthyroidism and those with a palpable goitre require larger doses of radioactive iodine (600 MBq) in order to achieve cure.