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Symptoms Signs Weight loss Tachycardia Nervousness Sweatiness Palpitations Feeling hot Feeling hot or sweatiness Fine tremor Loose bowel movements Atrial fibrillation Poor stamina Restlessness Breathlessness Apathy (older people) Tremulousness Weight loss Poor concentration Goiter* Changes Eye signs* Pretibial* dermopathy Finger clubbing* ↵* Features specific to Graves' disease.
High uptake of iodine Low uptake of iodine Graves' disease (Basedow's disease) Exogenous thyroid hormone Functioning nodule Medicamentous Toxic multinodular goiter Factitious Pituitary tumor secreting excess TSH Dietary (hamburger thyrotoxicosis) Tumors of placenta secreting large quantities of human chorionic gonadotropin Thyroiditis Subacute Silent Postpartum Excess iodine Jodbasedow Amiodarone Uptake at other sites, struma ovarii, functioning thyroid metastases
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- Abstract
- DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
- TREATMENT OF GRAVES' DISEASE
- ANTITHYROID MEDICATIONS
- SURGERY
- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND FOR 131I TREATMENT
- GOAL OF TREATMENT
- HOW IS ADMINISTERED DOSE DETERMINED?
- CALCULATING ADMINISTERED DOSE
- CALCULATING ABSORBED DOSE
- SELECTION OF DOSE OF 131I IN PRACTICE
- ALTERNATIVE RADIONUCLIDES OF IODINE
- FAILURE OF THERAPY
- TREATMENT OF SINGLE HYPERFUNCTIONING AUTONOMOUS NODULE
- TOXIC MULTINODULAR GOITERS
- SIDE EFFECTS AND COMPLICATIONS
- LITHIUM AS ADJUVANT TO 131I
- RADIATION SAFETY
- AIRPORT SECURITY AND 131I TREATMENT
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