Factors predicting remission in hyperthyroid patients after low-dose I-131 therapy: 20 years retrospective study from a tertiary care hospital.

Autor: S SY; Amrita School of Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwavidyapeetham, Cochin, Kerala, 682041, India.; Department of Radiodiagnosis, GITAM Institute of Medical Sciences And Research, (GITAM Deemed To be University), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, 530045, India., Padma S; Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwavidyapeetham, Cochin, Kerala, 682041, India., Sundaram PS; Department of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwavidyapeetham, Cochin, Kerala, 682041, India. drpssundaram@gmail.com.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Annals of nuclear medicine [Ann Nucl Med] 2024 Mar; Vol. 38 (3), pp. 231-237. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 26.
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-023-01891-4
Abstrakt: Objective: To assess the therapeutic outcome and factors predicting remission in hyperthyroid patients treated with low-dose I-131 (radioactive iodine) from a tertiary care hospital in South India.
Methods: This 20-year single-institutional retrospective study was carried out on 3891 hyperthyroid adult patients. Only those patients with complete clinical records were audited. Selection criteria were based on patients with scintigraphic diagnosis of either Graves' disease (GD), toxic multinodular goitre (TMNG) or autonomous toxic nodule (ATN) and the records of those who received low-dose I-131 therapy (LDT) between March 2000 and 2020 at Amrita Institute, Cochin were analysed. SPSS 10 software was used for statistical analysis.
Results: The records of 3891 hyperthyroid predominantly female patients were analysed. 65% patients had GD, 33% had TMNG and 3% were ATN. High rates of remission as early as 12 weeks (in 61% patients) was observed with a single dose of LDT while on strict iodine-free diet for 3-4 weeks prior to LDT. Study reveals that those with lower free T4 (fT4), small goitre (thyroid volume < 25 cm 3 ), < 15% thyroid trapping function, shorter time duration from onset of hyperthyroidism to LDT, and treatment-naïve patients were factors determining high remission rates. Mann Whitney U test and Chi-square test was used to correlate variables in the remission and relapse groups. We found a positive correlation between fT4, thyroid volume (r = 0.35, p < 0.01) and trapping function (r = 0.34, p < 0.01), which were independent of age, sex, body mass index and TSH levels in our study.
Conclusion: High therapeutic outcome was observed with a single dose of LDT while on iodine-free diet. Remission with single dose of LDT occurred in 90% patients by 5th month. Of them 56% patients were treatment naive prior to LDT. LDT is thus a safe and effective therapy in hyperthyroid patients and can be recommended as a primary modality of management.
(© 2024. The Author(s) under exclusive licence to The Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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