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Hyperthyroidism with Radioactive Iodine
Among the most common reasons given for developing this disease Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, in which the immune system attacks the thyroid have received radiotherapy in head and neck for any type of cancer, have a prior treatment for hyperthyroidism with radioactive iodine and such as removal of the gland.
It also declared that no joint pain, swelling of face, hands and feet, cold intolerance, constipation, dry skin, thinning hair and nails, memory loss and weight gain.
In this vein, Alejandro Sosa Caballero, member of the Thyroid Clinic of the Medical Unit of High Specialty Dr. Antonio Fraga Mouret Medical Center La Raza IMSS, said that between 4 and 7 percent of the world’s female population, older than 40 years, suffering from this disease, but also comes to be the case of children born with it.
According to the expert, cretinism and congenital hypothyroidism usually occurs due to iodine deficiency or when the infant lacks the gland, so it generates the central nervous system malformations, deafness, mental deficiencies and lack of growth. Read the rest of this entry »