UNLABELLED The effect of radioiodine in the treatment of nontoxic goiter is seldom evaluated quantitatively. The aim of this study was threefold: (a) to assess the effect of 131I on goiter volume, (b) to establish a relationship between CT volume reduction and the amount of radioactivity taken up by the thyroid and (b) to assess the precision of scintigraphic thyroid volume measurements. METH...

A 55-year-old female patient presented to the endocrine clinic with Grave’s disease. She was initially treated with carbimazole. After an early relapse, a decision was made to proceed with radioactive iodine therapy. Four days after radioiodine administration, she presented to the emergency department with chest tightness and dyspnea due to heart failure. Biochemistry revealed thyrotoxicosis an...

iodine deficiency is the most important preventable cause of mental deficiency. the aim of this study was to specify the phase during fetal and postnatal development when iodine supplementation would have optimum effect on the prevention of brain damage. materials and methods forty schoolchildren aged 7-13 years, from the previously iodine deficient villages of kiga and randan, were divided int...

Radioactive iodine (1311) has a part to play in the therapy of two thyroid disorders, carcinoma and thyrotoxicosis, by virtue of the selective concentration of it which occurs in functioning thyroid cells. The latter represent the only significant site of concentration of the iodide ion in the body, this occurring because of the necessity to incorporate iodine into the molecule of the thyroid h...

RATIONALE Post-therapy or diagnostic whole-body radioiodine scintigraphy is widely employed to evaluate the residual, recurrence, or metastases of differentiated thyroid carcinoma because of the high sensitivity and accuracy. However, it has pitfalls. PATIENT CONCERNS We described a 63-year-old male with a history of papillary thyroid carcinoma who was referred for iodine-131 ablation therapy...

OBJECTIVE Denmark was an area of iodine deficiency, and mandatory iodine fortification of table salt and salt in bread (13 p.p.m. iodine) was initiated in 2000/2001. The Danish investigation on iodine intake and thyroid disease (DanThyr) is the monitoring of the iodine fortification program. DESIGN AND METHODS DanThyr consists of three main parts: a study of population cohorts initialized bef...

introduction: high-dose radioactive iodine therapy in differentiated thyroid cancer (dtc) may adversely affect the salivary gland function. this study is aimed to evaluate the effect of radioactive iodine (rai) with dose of 100 mci in dtc patients compared to lower doses of less than 30 mci in hyperthyroid cases. methods: fifty four patients (13 men and 41 women) age: 42.3±14.3 (21-71) years w...

Aims: Dry mouth of individuals causes many oral discomforts and undesirable conditions. In order to prevent such an situation from occurring, it is aimed complete the Radioactive Iodine Therapy (RAI) treatment with less damage by mastering all possible factors. our study, we find level effect age factor.
 Methods: this included patients who received high-dose radioactive iodine after total...

  Introduction: There is a limited number of case reports published in the past decade confirming the radio-iodine presence in the tear. These observations as well as reported cases of salivary and lacrimal gland dysfunction after radioiodine therapy stimulated investigators to clarify whether lacrimal gland function can be affected post-radioiodine therapy. Hence we ...