Endocrine Abstracts

Two female patients aged 44 (PtA) and 68 years old (PtB) with non-toxic nodular goitre for more than 10 years were treated with radioiodine therapy. High resolution ultrasonography show enlarged thyroid glands 50 ml, with two nodules in left and right lobe in PtA and 58 ml with one nodule in the left lobe in PtB. Serum TSH, fT4 and fT3 were in normal ranges. Malignancy was ruled out by ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy. In PtA thyroid radioi...

The aim of our study was to assess the influence of radioiodine (131I) therapy on the achievement of euthyroidism, prevention of adverse effects on the cardiovascular and prevent evolvement to overt hyperthyroidism. Material and methods: We treated 950 patients, aged 30–70 years; 87% of them were female and 13% male; 320 patients with multinodular goitre (MNG), and 630 patients with autonomous nodule (ATN). Some of the patients were treated with antithyroid drugs for 1 to...