A PATIENT WITH GRAVES-DISEASE, THROMBOCYTOPENIA AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS-B

Citation
Cc. Szeto et al., A PATIENT WITH GRAVES-DISEASE, THROMBOCYTOPENIA AND CHRONIC HEPATITIS-B, Postgraduate medical journal, 73(855), 1997, pp. 39-40
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
ISSN journal
00325473
Volume
73
Issue
855
Year of publication
1997
Pages
39 - 40
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-5473(1997)73:855<39:APWGTA>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
A 22-year-old Chinese man, a HBsAg carrier, presented with relapse of thyrotoxic Graves' disease complicated by thrombocytopenia and hepatit is. Platelet count and liver enzymes gradually improved following succ essful treatment of the thyrotoxicosis with radioactive iodine. Possib le pathogenetic links and therapeutic implications are discussed.