The following is a summary of “Effect of radioactive iodine therapy on hematological parameters in patients with thyroid ...

MANY patients receive iodine-containing medication that can alter the results of concomitantly performed determinations of radioiodine uptake or serum protein-bound iodine. When the iodine is an ...

Quantitative studies evaluating radioiodine uptake and qualitative studies using visual observations both compare thyroid function on the diagnostic scan (DxSCAN) versus the posttreatment whole ...

Radiation from patients undergoing other diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclide procedures such as bone scans or radioiodine therapy may pose a risk of radiation exposure to medical staff and does ...

conducted a systematic review of controlled studies of radioiodine therapy in such patients. Longitudinal studies of the effect of a single dose of ≤150 mCi (5.56 GBq) of radioiodine showed that ...

Hospital staff brief patients on safety. Radioiodine may be given to patients of any age but it is less frequently given to children under 10. Long term follow-up of children who have been treated ...

Patients with iodine-induced subclinical and clinical hyperthyroidism should be carefully medicated to normalize thyroid function before radioiodine treatment for multinodular goiters, according ...