Propylthiouracil: Clinical overview of its efficacy and its side effects more than 50 years after the introduction of its use in thyrostatic treatment

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-104

  Weissel, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Graves' disease; Propylthiouracil; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CARBIMAZOLE; IODINE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; THIONAMIDE; THYROTROPIN;

AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; BITTER TASTE; BREAST MILK; DRUG EFFICACY; FEVER; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; LACTATION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUPUS LIKE SYNDROME; NAUSEA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SHORT SURVEY; SIDE EFFECT; THYROTOXICOSIS; URTICARIA; VOMITING;

ANTITHYROID AGENTS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROPYLTHIOURACIL;

EID: 77649157483     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: 14393646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1215587     Document Type: Short Survey

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