Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are the most common autoimmune thyroid diseases. Hypothyroidism can develop in patients with Graves' disease, either spontaneously or as a result of radioactive iodine therapy or surgery. However, it is rare for patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis to subsequently develop Graves' disease. We report a case of alopecia areata associated with Graves' di...

Both Graves disease and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) are autoimmune disorders caused by impaired self-tolerance mechanisms and triggered by interactions between genetic and environmental factors. GBS in patients who suffer from other autoimmune diseases is rarely reported, and the development of postinfectious GBS in a patient with Graves disease has not been previously reported in the literat...

32 patients (19 female. 13 male)• suffering from Graves' disease with exophthalmus and five without exophthalmus were studied for various autoantibodies including anti-thyroglobulin (ATAB). anti-microsomal antibody (AMAB). anti-parietal antibodies (APAB) and also circulating immune complex (CrC). 43 normal subjects were tested concurrently. Immunofluorescent technique was employed for auto...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether color flow Doppler sonography (CFDS) is useful in differentiating Graves vs non-Graves thyrotoxicosis during pregnancy, when nuclear imaging is contraindicated. METHODS Ten pregnant women with thyrotoxicosis were divided into Graves, and non-Graves, disease groups and were evaluated by CFDS for thyroid volume, vascularity, and inferior thyroid artery (ITA) flow ...

Graves' disease is an autoimmune disorder that may present with various clinical manifestations of hyperthyroidism. Patients with Graves' disease have a greater number of thyroid nodules and a higher incidence of thyroid cancer compared with patients with normal thyroid activity. However, cases in which patients are diagnosed with recurrence of Graves' disease shortly after partial thyroidectom...

Background. Graves' disease may have a number of clinical manifestations with varying degrees of activity that may not always run in parallel. Objectives. To study associations between serum levels of TSH-receptor autoantibodies and the three main manifestations of Graves' disease (hyperthyroidism, goiter, and presence of orbitopathy) at the time of diagnosis of hyperthyroidism. Methods. We des...

AIM to determine the correlation between free thyroxine level and left ventricular mass in newly diagnoses Graves' disease. METHODS seventeen patients with newly diagnosed Graves' disease were studied. Inclusion criteria was new case of Graves' disease, no previous history or clinical evidence of coronary artery disease, cardiac valve disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, not ta...

Human leukocyte antigens (HLA) in patients with Graves' disease were investigated according to the ophthalmic classification system of the American Thyroid Association. All prior HLA studies of Graves' disease have disregarded the patients' specific ophthalmic manifestations. Examination of 18 A and 34 B loci antigens disclosed an increased frequency (corrected P = 0.002, relative risk = 13.1) ...

BACKGROUND Autoimmune thyroid diseases including Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are caused by immune response to self-thyroid antigens. The rare situation of hyperthyroidism with Graves' disease in twins has been reported in a very few case reports in literature. CASE PRESENTATION We present monozygotic female twins developing consecutively Graves' disease within five years. One ...

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), which predominantly affects women, has been associated with various autoimmune diseases. Although hypothyroidism accompanying PBC is well documented, the concomitance of PBC and hyperthyroidism is rare. Herein, we report the case of a 62-year-old man who was diagnosed with PBC several years after the development of Graves' disease. This is the first case of a ma...