Toggle Main Menu Toggle Search

Open Access padlockePrints

Post-radioiodine Graves' management: the PRAGMA study

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Petros PerrosORCiD, Dr Bijayeswar Vaidya, Dr Salman Razvi, Dr Asgar Madathil, Emeritus Professor Stephen Jarvis

Downloads


Licence

This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Wiley, 2022.

For re-use rights please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.


Abstract

Objective. Thyroid status in the months following radioiodine treatment for Graves’ disease can be unstable.Our objective was to quantify frequency of abnormal thyroid function post-radioiodine and compare effectiveness of common management strategies.Design. Retrospective, multi-centre, observational study.Patients. Adult patients with Graves’ disease treated with radioiodine with 12 months’ follow-up.Measurements. Euthyroidism was defined as both serum thyrotropin (TSH) and free thyroxine (FT4) within their reference ranges or, when only one was available, it was within its reference range; hypothyroidism as TSH ≥ 10 mu/L, or subnormal FT4 regardless of TSH; hyperthyroidism as TSH below and FT4 above their reference ranges; dysthyroidism as the sum of hypo- and hyperthyroidism; subclinical hypothyroidism as normal FT4 and TSH between the upper limit of normal and <10 mu/L; subclinical hyperthyroidism as low TSH and normal FT4Results. Of 812 patients studied post-radioiodine, hypothyroidism occurred in 80.7% and hyperthyroidism in 48.6% of patients. Three principal post-radioiodine management strategies were employed: (a) anti-thyroid drugs alone, (b) levothyroxine alone and (c) combination of the two. Differences among these were small. Adherence to national guidelines regarding monitoring thyroid function in the first 6 months was low (21.4–28.7%). No negative outcomes (new-onset/exacerbation of Graves’ orbitopathy, weight gain, cardiovascular events), were associated with dysthyroidism. There were significant differences in demographics, clinical practice, and thyroid status post-radioiodine between centres.Conclusions. Dysthyroidism in the 12 months post-radioiodine was common. Differences between post-radioiodine strategies were small , suggesting these interventions alone are unlikely to address the high frequency of dysthyroidism.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Perros P, Basu A, Boelaert K, Dayan C, Vaidya B, Williams GR, Lazarus JH, Hickey J, Drake WM, Crown A, Orme SM, Johnson A, Ray DW, Leese GP, Jones TH, Abraham P, Grossman A, Rees A, Razvi S, Gibb FW, Moran C, Madathil A, Zarkovic MP, Plummer Z, Jarvis S, Falinska A, Velusamy A, Sanderson V, Pariani N, Atkin SL, Syed AA, Sathyapalan T, Nag S, Gilbert J, Gleeson H, Levy MJ, Johnston C, Sturrock N, Bennett S, Mishra B, Malik I, Karavitaki N

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Clinical Endocrinology

Year: 2022

Volume: 97

Issue: 5

Pages: 664-675

Print publication date: 01/11/2022

Online publication date: 11/03/2022

Acceptance date: 05/01/2022

Date deposited: 05/01/2022

ISSN (print): 0300-0664

ISSN (electronic): 1365-2265

Publisher: Wiley

URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/cen.14719

DOI: 10.1111/cen.14719

ePrints DOI: 10.57711/q4h8-fb59


Altmetrics

Altmetrics provided by Altmetric


Funding

Funder referenceFunder name
Clinical Endocrinology Trust

Share