Advances in Graves' Disease and Other Hyperthyroid Disorders

This book describes the causes, diagnosis, treatment and disease course of Graves' disease and other hyperthyroid disorders, such as toxic multinodular goiter, thyroiditis, resistance to thyroid hormone, and hyperthyroidism caused by medications and genetic mutations. It focuses on subsequent advances in disease pathology since the 2001 publication of Graves' Disease: A Practical Guide, including discoveries regarding the genetic, immune system, and environmental factors that lead to hyperthyroid disorders; new guidelines for conventional treatment; and alternative and complementary medical therapies. Additional sections describe special circumstances such as hyperthyroidism in pregnancy and in children and transient hyperthyroidism in the newborn. - Publisher.

שנה

2013

שפה

English

הוצאה

McFarland & Company, Inc.

מהדורות

1

ISBN

9781476606224

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