OBJECTIVES This retrospective study was aimed at evaluating the efficacy of radioiodine (RI) treatment for patients with autonomously functioning thyroid nodules (AFTN). METHODS The subjects were 38 patients including 26 cases of toxic adenoma (TA) and 12 cases of toxic multinodular goiter (TMNG), who attended our clinic from July 1999 to April 2005. RI treatment was performed in the outpatie...

Iodine-123 single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging of the thyroid was performed in two patients with multinodular goiter and swallowing difficulty to provide the functional and anatomic orientation of the goiter in relation to the airway. Transaxial slices showed the retrolaryngeal extension of the enlarged thyroid and the tracheal compression by the goiter in both patients. ...

BACKGROUND When planning radioactive iodine therapy, it frequently happens, both in Poland and world-wide, that inadequate attention is paid to such easily measurable parameter sas: 1) the serum concentration of thyrotropin (TSH) before administering radioiodine, which is a key factor for extranodular(non-autonomous) iodine uptake of the thyroid gland, 2) thyroid gland iodine uptake, and 3) the...

The prevalence of mitral valve prolapse was investigated in 126 patients with hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease or toxic nodular goitre and that of hyperthyroidism in 64 patients with mitral valve prolapse. One hundred and eleven asymptomatic healthy subjects comprised a control group. The patients with hyperthyroidism were divided into those with Graves' disease and those with toxic nodul...