Endocrine Abstracts

Graves' disease (GD) is caused by thyroid stimulating antibodies (TSAb) which are thyrotropin (TSH) agonists. Thyroid peroxidase (TPO) antibodies, although markers of thyroid auto-immunity are not involved in the pathogenesis of GD. Despite this, TPO antibodies are frequently used to establish the etiology of thyrotoxicosis. It was our aim to compare TPO antibodies with TSAb in a cohort of thyrotoxic patients to determine whether TPO antibodies and TSAb could be regarded as eq...