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Graves Disease*

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Graves Disease*

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Graves Ophthalmopathy*

Graves' disease (GD) and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) are both autoimmune disorders and are triggered by interactions between genetic and environmental factors. GBS in patients who suffer from other autoimmune diseases is rarely reported, and the development of atypical GBS with cranial nerve involvement in a patient with GD has never been previously reported. Herein, we report a patient with GD and a rare form of pharyngo-cervico-brachial variety of GBS.

Objective: This study determined the prevalence of Graves ophthalmopathy among thyroid-disease patients at a tertiary government hospital. Methods: Patients with thyroid disease seen at a tertiary hospital from February to September 2007 were enrolled. All patients underwent ophthalmologic examination consisting of visual-acuity testing; exophthalmometry; examination for presence of lid retraction, lid lag, and lateral flare; globe position; external-ocular-muscle-movement grading; corneal light reflex; and direct funduscopic examination. All clinical findings were recorded and data were analyzed. Chi square and Fisher’s exact tests determined the association of gender and age to the different ocular signs and symptoms. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) compared the average number of ocular symptoms among the different age groups. Results: A total of 121 patients, 20 males and 101 females, with thyroid disease were evaluated. 47.93% had Graves ophthalmopathy, occurring more frequently among patients aged between 30 and 49 years. The most common signs were eyelid retraction, proptosis, and lid lag. Conclusion Graves ophthalmopathy occurs frequently among patients with thyroid disease, especially those more than 30 years of age.
Graves Ophthalmopathy ; Graves Disease ; Exophthalmos ; Thyroid Diseases

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Graves Disease* ; Hypothyroidism*

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Genetics* ; Graves Disease*

175 Basedow’s disease patients (45 males and 170 females; mean age: 44.48 ± 8.89) were treated by I-131 at Bach Mai hospital and Military Hospital 103. Total T3 level in serum was 6.45 ± 2.81 nmol/l (n=146) and total T4 level was 243.58 ± 72.34 nmol/l (n=143). Before treatment T3 and T4 level increased abnormaly comparing with healthy people. By 4 months of treatment, T3 level was 2.15 ± 0.78 nmol/l and T4 level was 120.35 ± 36.81nmol/l, FT4 level was 15.67 ± 6.51pmol/l. With average dose of 6.52 ± 1.64 mCi I-131, most of patients had normalized total T3, T4 level
Graves Disease ; Therapeutics

After a 4 weeks of treatment by propyl thyouracil, the biochemical indices of Basedow disease had changed obviously: triiodothyronin (T3) high level (7.95 ± 1.58 nmol/l before treatment) had increased dramatically (1.98 ± 0.54 nmol/l), total thyroxin (T4) high level (257.56 ± 47.45 nmol/l before treatment) had decreased dramatically (1278.04 ± 10.82 nmol/l). FT4 serum level high level had decreased after treatment. TSF low level before treatment had increased. But after treatment glucose level had increased unsignificantly versus that before. In severe condition blood cholesterol had increased, but in moderate and mild condition, there was no change.
Blood ; Therapeutics ; Graves Disease

For the past 60 years, there have been millions with hyperthyroidism and Basedow patients treated successfully by radioiodine (I-131). The number of patients with hyperthyroidism and Basedow treated by I-131 was the same as this received operations. The radioiodine therapy was a safe, effective and economic method with easy to implement that should be selected among methods of treatment of hyperthyroidism and Basedow
Hyperthyroidism ; Graves Disease ; Therapeutics