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Thyroid eye disease in Graves' disease: symptoms, how common it is, why smoking matters so much, how treatment of the thyroid (carbimazole, radioiodine, surgery) affects the eyes, selenium, steroids, teprotumumab and surgery.
Thyroid storm is a rare, life-threatening flare of an overactive thyroid. The warning signs that mean calling an ambulance, common triggers such as infection or stopping carbimazole, and how hospitals treat it.
When thyroidectomy is advised for Graves' disease or toxic nodules, preparing with Neo-Mercazole (carbimazole), the risks to voice and calcium, the scar, recovery and lifelong levothyroxine.
Overactive ("hot") thyroid nodules, in a toxic multinodular goitre or a single toxic adenoma. How they differ from Graves' disease, why carbimazole controls but rarely cures them, and how radioiodine and surgery are used.
