NOVEL ASPECTS IN GRAVES’ DISEASE THERAPY
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https://doi.org/10.22491/2357-9730.126256Keywords:
Graves’ disease, hyperthyroidism, antithyroid drugs, radioactive iodineAbstract
ions are antithyroid drugs, radioiodine (131I) and surgery. Radiactive iodine is increasingly being used as definitive therapy, because it long has proven to be a safe, cheap and effective treatment. The risk of exacerbation of hyperthyroidism after 131I administration, factors that may predict the response to radioiodine and the dose to be administrated have been discussed in the literature and we comment the controversies in this review. In patients with mild disease, small goiters, children, adolescents and in special situations, as pregnancy, antityhyroid drugs are still the first choice of treatment for most authors. Surgery is rarely employed, and it is
indicated only in cases where antithyroid drugs have not been effective and radioiodine is contraindicated or not acceptable by the patients.
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