Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Grave’s Disease (GD) is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism and its effect of health status is well known. Beta blockers (BB) are routinely used to control thyrotoxic symptoms in initial phase of treatment of GD.Objective: To study the effect of BB on quality of life (QOL) in patients with GD using different BB; propranolol, nebivolol and metoprolol succinate.Method: A cohort prospective study was conducted on...

Background: Grave’s Disease (GD) is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism and its effect of health status is well known. Beta blockers (BB) are routinely used to control thyrotoxic symptoms in initial phase of treatment of GD.Objective: To study the effect of BB on quality of life (QOL) in patients with GD using different BB; propranolol, nebivolol and metoprolol succinate.Method: A cohort prospective study was conducted on...

Introduction: Percutaneous Ethanol Injection (PEI) is well known treatment for benign cystic thyroid nodules; however, local pain is common side effect. Objective: To compare between efficacy and safety of Percutaneous Polidocanol Sclerotherapy (PPS) vs PEI.Patients and methods: We included 60 patients -with mean age 32 years- have benign thyroid nodules (9 of them were males). They were divided into 2 groups; group 1 with...