Saturday, April 18, 2009

Antithyroid drug (PTU)may be dangerous for kids with graves' disease


In the New England Journal of Medicine, two experts wrote that PTU can cause severe liver disease in children and should no longer be used as a first-line treatment for children with Graves' disease, a disorder in which the thyroid gland produces more thyroid hormone than the body needs.PTU can cause liver disease.

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