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Introduction For many years radioactive iodine ( 131 I) has been used for treatment of nontoxic goiter, hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer. During the last decade recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) - a very potent stimulator of the thyroid 131 I
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result of interactions between genetic [ 3 ] and environmental triggers, of which cigarette smoking [ 4 , 5 ] and iodine intake [ 6 ] have received most attention. Patients with GD have an increased burden of other morbidities [ 7 ], including an
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Rotterdam between November 2014 and October 2015. Initial therapy consisted of total thyroidectomy. Patients were eligible for inclusion if they were scheduled for treatment with radioactive iodine (RAI); did not use drugs interfering with TH metabolism or
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Introduction Purpose and scope of guideline Hyperthyroidism caused by Graves’ disease (GD) is a relatively rare disease in children. Although treatment options are the same as in adults – antithyroid drugs (ATD), radioactive iodine (RAI
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Introduction When dietary iodine is sufficient, the major product of the thyroid gland is thyroxine (T4) which is secreted at a rate of 10-fold that of 3,5,3′-triiodothyronine (T3) in humans. Thus, a rate-limiting step in thyroid hormone
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Introduction Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) is the most common form of thyroid carcinoma [ 1 ]. Most cases of DTC can be effectively treated with surgery followed by levothyroxine therapy and radioactive iodine (RAI) in selected patients
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patients with known or suspected nodular thyroid disease and a US-guided fine-needle aspirate (FNA) is considered the gold standard when evaluating cold (without uptake on a technetium-99m scintigraphy) thyroid nodules [ 1 ]. In a borderline iodine
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of DTC usually consists of total thyroidectomy followed by radioactive iodine (RAI) remnant ablation (RRA). Postoperative administration of RAI serves three major goals: the first is to destroy any residual microscopic disease as well as any remaining
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. Each binding site contains several largely hydrophobic pockets formed by a main chain and side chains of β-sheets which can each accommodate one iodine atom from TH. The innermost binding pocket also allows nucleophiles (e.g. Ser-OH) to form polar
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pathogenic mechanisms: type 1 (AIT1) is a form of iodine-induced hyperthyroidism in response to the high iodine load present in amiodarone, while type 2 (AIT2) is a drug-induced destructive thyroiditis. There are also mixed forms, in which both pathogenic