Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Currently there are three well-established treatment options for hyperthyroid Graves’ disease (GD): antithyroid drug therapy with thionamides, radioactive iodine (RAI) treatment with (131)I, and surgery. The aim of this study was to investigate retrospectively theurapeutic options of the patients with GD treated at outpatient clinics of Endocrinology and Metabolism between January 2007 and December 2009.Methods: We evaluated 122 patients ...

Objective: Radioiodine (RAI), surgical and anti-thyroid drug therapy are the main options to treat Graves’ disease (GD). The aim of this study was to investigate theurapeutic options, their efficacy and adverse reactions of prophilthiouracil (PTU) and methimazole (MMI).Design: A total of 650 patients with GD were evaluated retrospectively. Treatments, adverse reactions, clinical and laboratory results were recorded. After 18 months of primary medica...