Graves’ Disease – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment

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Graves Disease Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis,
and Treatment

• By Dr Valeria Simone MD
• (Southlake General Surgery, Texas, USA)

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Overview

• Graves disease is an immune system disorder. It
  makes your thyroid gland create an excess thyroid
  hormone in the body. This condition is
  called hyperthyroidism. Graves disease is the
  most recognized form of hyperthyroidism.
• In Graves disease, the immune system of your
  body produces antibodies called
  Thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulins that connect
  with healthy thyroid cells. This condition causes
  your thyroid to produce more thyroid hormone than
  normal.
• Thyroid hormones influence numerous parts of your
  body. This may include nervous system function,
  body temperature, mental health, and other
  significant components.
• Whenever left untreated, hyperthyroidism might
  lead to weight loss, tension, anxiety,
  depression, discouragement, and physical or
  mental fatigue.

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Symptoms of Gravess disease

• Both Graves disease and hyperthyroidism have
  almost the same symptoms. These may include
• Nervousness, hand tremors, fatigue, and muscle
  weakness
• weight loss
• rapid pulse rate (tachycardia)
• intolerance to heat
• bad temper and difficulty in sleeping
• goitre (swollen thyroid gland)
• recurrent formed bowel movements
• In a few cases, individuals with Graves disease
  will encounter swollen, coagulated skin around
  the shin region. This refers to Graves
  dermopathy.
• A few other symptoms an individual may encounter
  are known as Graves ophthalmopathy. This happens
  when the eyes may appear to be augmented because
  of the eyelids retracting. Once this occurs, an
  individuals eyes may start to swell from your
  eye sockets.

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What are the reasons for Graves disease?

• Graves disease like an autoimmune disorder,
  where the immune system starts fighting against
  the healthy cells and tissues in the body. In our
  body immune system generally creates proteins
  called antibodies to fight against bacteria and
  viruses.
• These antibodies are delivered exceptionally to
  focus on the specific intruder. In Graves
  disease, the bodys immune system erroneously
  creates antibodies considered thyroid-stimulating
  immunoglobulins that target healthy thyroid
  cells.

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Who all get impacted by Graves disease?

• Specialists believe that the following variables
  may influence the risk of fostering Graves
  disease
• Age
• Gender
• Level of stress
• heredity
• Graves disease is common in the age group of
  less than 40 years. If any one of the family
  members has Graves disease, then your risk
  additionally increases considerably. Women may
  have 7 to 8 times more oftentimes than men.
• To have another immune system disease
  additionally expands an individuals risk of
  emerging Graves disease. Diabetes Mellitus Type
  1, Rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohns disease are
  a few instances of autoimmune disease.

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Diagnosis of Graves disease

• Your PCP may prescribe lab tests if they
  speculate Graves disease. If anybody in an
  individuals family has had Graves disease, the
  PCP might have the option to limit the diagnosis
  based on the clinical history and physical tests.
• Your primary care physician may likewise
  prescribe some of the accompanying tests
• thyroid ultrasound
• blood tests
• Thyroid stimulating hormone test (TSH)
• Thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin test (TSI)
• radioactive iodine uptake test
• thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulin (TSI) test
• The combined tests report of these may help the
  doctor to identify Graves disease or another
  kind of thyroid problem.

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Treatment of Gravess disease

• Three treatment choices are accessible for
  individuals with this disorder
• antithyroid drug treatment
• radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy treatment
• thyroid surgery

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• Antithyroid drugs Treatment
• Antithyroid medications might be prescribed.
  Beta-blockers may likewise be utilized to
  decrease the impacts of symptoms until other
  medicines start to work.
• Radioiodine Therapy Treatment
• Radioactive iodine therapy is perhaps the most
  widely recognized treatment for Graves disease.
  This treatment expects you to take dosages of
  radioactive iodine-131 that can be swallowed in
  the form of a pill.
• Thyroid surgery
• Thyroid surgery is another alternative, its
  utilized less frequently. Your PCP may suggest a
  surgical procedure if past treatments havent
  worked accurately or if thyroid cancer is
  presumed, however, thyroid cancer in the setting
  of Graves disease is uncommon.
• Thyroid surgery at Southlake General Surgery may
  likewise be suggested if an individual is
  pregnant and cant consume antithyroid
  medications. For this situation, a surgical
  procedure isnt performed until the second
  trimester due to the risk of miscarriage or
  premature delivery.
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