Graves Disease
Graves Disease: Introduction
Graves Disease:
Graves' disease is one of the most common
autoimmune diseases, affecting 13 million people and targeting women
seven times as often as men. ... more about Graves Disease.
Graves Disease: is an autoimmune disease characterized by hyperthyroidism due to circulating autoantibodies. Thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulins (TSIs) bind to and activate thyrotropin receptors, causing the thyroid gland to grow and the thyroid follicles to increase synthesis of thyroid hormone.
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Symptoms of Graves Disease
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Causes of Graves Disease
- Graves's disease is autoimmune in etiology. The autoimmune process in Graves disease isinfluenced by a combination of environmental and genetic factors
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Medical Textbooks Online about Graves Disease
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- "The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult" (2008)
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Prognosis for Graves Disease
Prognosis for Graves Disease:
Most patients become hypothyroid and require replacement. Similarly, the ophthalmopathy generally becomes quiescent. On occasion, hyperthyroidism returns because of persisting thyroid tissue after ablation and high antibody titers of anti-TSI. Further therapy may be necessary in the form of surgery or radioactive iodine ablation.
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Clinical Trials for Graves Disease
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Prevention of Graves Disease
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Article Excerpts about Graves Disease
Endocrine Diseases: NWHIC (Excerpt)
Graves' disease is one of the most common
autoimmune diseases, affecting 13 million people and targeting women
seven times as often as men. Patients with Graves' disease produce
an excessive amount of thyroid hormone. (Source: excerpt from Endocrine Diseases: NWHIC)
Graves' Disease: NWHIC (Excerpt)
Graves' Disease is a type of autoimmune disease in which the immune
system over stimulates the thyroid gland, causing hyperthyroidism.
Over-activity of the thyroid gland is also sometimes called "diffuse toxic
goiter." The thyroid gland helps set the rate of metabolism (the rate at
which the body uses energy), and when it is over-stimulated, it produces
more thyroid hormones than the body needs. High levels of thyroid hormones
can cause difficult side effects. This is an extremely rare disease that
tends to affect women over the age of 20. The incidence is about 5 in
10,000 people. (Source: excerpt from Graves' Disease: NWHIC)
Thyroid Disease: NWHIC (Excerpt)
Grave's disease is the most common form of
hyperthyroidism. It is an autoimmune condition in which the body produces
antibodies that overstimulate the thyroid gland, so that it produces too
much thyroid hormone. (Source: excerpt from Thyroid Disease: NWHIC)
Definitions of Graves Disease:
Hyperthyroidism associated with diffuse hyperplasia of the thyroid gland (goiter), resulting from production of antibodies that are directed against the thyrotropin receptor complex of the follicular epithelial cells. As a result, the thyroid gland enlarges and secrets increased amounts of thyroid hormones. --2004
- (Source - Diseases Database)
Exophthalmos occurring in association with goiter; hyperthyroidism with protrusion of the eyeballs
- (Source - WordNet 2.1)
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