Hyperthyroidism, or thyrotoxicosis, results when the body's tissues are exposed to excessive levels of thyroid hormone. Hyperthyroidism affects 2% of women but only one-tenth as many men. Graves' disease is the most common form of hyperthyroidism, often occurring in young adults. It is an autoim...
Choice of therapy in young adults with hyperthyroidism of Graves' disease. A brief, case-directed poll of fifty-four thyroidologists. We asked 54 thyroidologists how they would treat each of four patients having moderate hyperthyroidism of Graves' disease and a thyroid gland weighing 70 g... ...
Hyperthyroidism in youth and in pregnancy presents special problems, and antithyroid drugs are the treatment of choice. We believe that the uncertainty of the long-term effects of radioiodine warrants the use of antithyroid drugs in most young adults with hyperthyroidism....
This disorder is more common with aging and is uncommon in adolescents and young adults. Thyroiditis is inflammation of the thyroid gland. The inflammation can be caused by a viral infection (subacute thyroiditis), autoimmune thyroid inflammation that occurs after childbirth (silent lymphocytic ...
Antithyroid drugs are often administered to help the patient's body cease overproduction of thyroid hormones. This medication may work for young adults, pregnant women, and others. Women who are pregnant should be treated with the lowest dose required to maintain thyroid function in order to minimi...
High incidence of multinodular toxic goitre in the elderly population in a low iodine intake area versus high incidence of Graves' disease in the young in a high iodine intake area: comparative surveys of thyrotoxicosis epidemiology in East-Jutland Denmark and Iceland. J. Intern. Med. 229, ...
In contrast to western reports most of our patients were young, presented late with florid bone and renal disease and had large palpable tumors. 展开 关键词:Humans Adenoma Parathyroid Neoplasms Calcium Hyperparathyroidism Alkaline Phosphatase Retrospective Studies Adolescent Adult Aged ...
Graves disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism in the United States and most Western countries.[20]As Graves disease is autoimmune in etiology, this form of hyperthyroidism tends to manifest itself in younger populations. In older adults and people living in regions of iodine deficiency...
Hyperthyroidism and risk of ischemic stroke in young adults: a 5-year follow-up study. Stroke. 2010;41(5):961-966. doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.577742 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 6. Brandt F, Green A, Hegedüs L, Brix TH. A critical review and meta-analysis of...
Treatment options are largely the same as for adults, though antithyroid medication is preferred.1014 Neonatal hyperthyroidism A very small number of newborn babies may present with hyperthyroidism, typically where the mother has Graves' disease. Symptoms of hyperthyroidism in infants may include irritabi...