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Endocrinology • Thyroid Disorders
How do you choose between antithyroid drugs, RAI, and surgery for hyperthyroidism patients with existing cardiovascular disease, given their varying effects on cardiovascular outcomes?
Answer from: at Community Practice
This recent JAMA study (Chiung-Hui Peng et al., PMID 38436957), and others like it (e.g., Okosieme et al., PMID 30827829) show higher mortality rates and CV disease in patients receiving ATDs vs RAI, or better outcomes with surgery vs both RAI and ATDs (Liu et al., PMID 35822337). The main reason ap...
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Answer from: at Community Practice
I agree with Dr. @Cooper's assessment but my rate of "failure" of RAI is 5%, not 20%.
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at Johns Hopkins Outpatient Endocrinology
Individual results may vary! My comment about fail...
Individual results may vary! My comment about fail...