Friday, March 7, 2008
Hyperthyroid patients can use thiourea drugs?
In principle all hyperthyroidism patients can use drugs thiourea treatment, But Hyperthyroidism is caused by a variety of reasons, so the use of such drugs to treat hyperthyroidism. Sometimes only in certain stages of the disease play a major role or a supporting role. Hyperthyroidism common types : diffuse toxic goiter (also called Graves disease), toxic thyroid adenoma, toxic nodular goiter and hyperthyroidism pituitary and the thyroid gland of hyperthyroidism, thyroid cancer caused by hyperthyroidism. Ovarian goiter induced hyperthyroidism, for the above types of hyperthyroidism, some have to rely on drug treatment, drug treatment failure, only alternative treatment, such as Graves disease. Some diseases are first treated with surgery or radiotherapy, If toxic thyroid adenoma and ovarian Graves. When the disease process high metabolic syndrome as needed before the use of thiourea treatment with drugs. Thiourea drug clinical indications for the following five aspects : ① mild Thyroid mild to moderate swelling of the patients. ② the age of 20 years of age, pregnant women, the elderly or frail with serious heart, liver and kidney disease rather than surgery. ③ for the disease before surgery preparations. ④ thyroid meeting of recurrence after resection of 131 not it is appropriate iodine treatment. ⑤ as radioactive iodine treatment before and after the treatment.
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