Our results indicate that remission after long-term methimazole treatment is plausible in Graves' disease patients with smaller thyroid volume and lower thyroid vascularity at the disease presentation. Therefore, both thyroid volume and thyroid vascularity are very good early predictive factors that may help us identify patients with heavier course of Graves' disease.
COBISS.SI-ID: 24812505
Our results demonstrate that colour flow Doppler sonography is a useful method for distinction between hyperthyroid and hypothyroid phase of postpartum thyroiditis and between hyperthyroid phase of postpartum thyroiditis and Graves' disease. However, colour flow Doppler sonography cannot differentiate between hypothyroid phase of postpartum thyroiditis and Graves' disease. The present findings are supposed to contribute to the prompt and correct diagnostics of thyroid dysfunction in the postpartum period.
COBISS.SI-ID: 24812761