The autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) are complex diseases that are caused by an
interaction between susceptibility genes and environmental triggers. Genetic susceptibility …

I. Introduction R ECENT progress in the study of Graves' ophthalmopathy has been anything
but stagnant. The past 20 yr have witnessed a rapid expansion in the collective …

Internal Medicine Vol.47 Page 1 725 □ ORIGINAL ARTICLE □ Clinical Characteristics of 852
Patients with Subacute Thyroiditis before Treatment Eijun Nishihara, Hidemi Ohye, Nobuyuki …

Autoimmune thyroid disease is the archetype for organ-specific autoimmune disorders.
Progress in treating these disorders lies in improvements of our understanding of the …

We treated 187 patients who had Graves' disease with low-dose radioactive iodide (131I),
using a protocol that included a compensation for thyroid size. The incidence of early …

Completely updated for its Ninth Edition, this classic text provides comprehensive coverage
of every aspect of thyroid anatomy, development, biochemistry, physiology …

Autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITDs), including Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's
thyroiditis (HT), are prevalent autoimmune diseases, affecting up to 5% of the general …

Graves' disease (GD) is generally thought of as a multifactorial disorder in which genetic
susceptibility interacts with environmental and endogenous factors to cause disease. The …

Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) comprises a series of interrelated conditions including
hyperthyroid Graves' disease (GD), Hashimoto's (goitrous) thyroiditis, atrophic autoimmune …

Of 771 young diabetic patients, thyroid microsomal autoantibodies occurred in 136 (17.6%)
at a female/male ratio of nearly 2: 1 and with a predominance of white patients (20.1%) over …