Abstract

CORRALES-HERNANDEZ, Juan José et al. Medical treatment of hyperthyroidism. Rev. ORL [online]. 2020, vol.11, n.3, pp.273-281.  Epub Jan 11, 2021. ISSN 2444-7986.  https://dx.doi.org/10.14201/orl.20957.

Hyperthyroidism is a rather common disease that affects 0.2 % of general population in Europe. There are many causes as well as various pathogenic mechanisms inducing a hypersecretion of thyroid hormones. Therefore, treatments are selected for each cause to obtain the highest therapeutic benefit. Is this chapter we consider the treatment of common causes such as Graves-disease, toxic multinodular goiter, toxic adenoma and other more infrequent entities such as several subtypes of thyroiditis and, finally, we briefly comment on rare cases of thyroid hyperfunction.

Keywords : hyperthyroidism; Graves disease; toxic multinodular goiter; thyroiditis; methimazole; propylthiouracil; beta-blockers; prednisone; Somatostatin analogues; dopamine agonists.

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