Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Definitive treatment for pediatric Grave’s disease includes radioiodine ablation (RAI) or thyroidectomy. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to compare the cure and relapse rates of RAI vs surgery as definitive therapy in children with Grave’s disease.Methods: A comprehensive search on Cochrane library, EMBASE, PUBMED and ClinicalTrials.gov for English articles published on def...

Background: Treatment options for patients with toxic multinodular goitre (TMNG) include antithyroid medications, thyroidectomy, and radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy. Our aim was to investigate the efficacy of RAI alone compared to combination therapy that includes RAI with medical therapy.Methods: Search was performed using MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process (PubMed platform), Embase (Elsevier platform), BIOSIS and Cochrane wa...