Study Of Bone Mineral Dinsity In Active Thyrotoxicosis

This work has been done in the Internal Medicine and Radiology Departments, Zagazig University Hospitals from January 2001 to April 2002. The present study was planned to studyBMD in thyrotoxic patients and to study bone density in patients with Graves disease compared with those with toxic nodular goiter. It also planned to study the effect of short term control of the thyrotoxic stateon bone density.It included 45 thyrotoxic patients with an age range from 20-73 years.13 patients of them were males with an age range from 26-64 years.While 32 of themwere females with an age rangefrom 20-73 years.Patients were classified according to the thyrotoxic status into the following groups:Group 1: It comparised l2 recently discovered thyrotoxic patients (3 males and 9 females) with an age range from 22-43 years.Group II: It comparised 13 uncontrolled Graves’ disease patients (4 males and 9females) with an age range from 22-53 years.Group III : It comparised 8 uncontrolled toxic nodular goiter patients (3 males and 5 females) with an age range from 20-60 years.Group IV:It comparised 12 controlled thyrotoxic patients (3 males and 9 females) with an age rangefrom 20-73 years.Group V: It comparised 11 patients who were uncontrolled thyrotoxic then have been controlled for 6 months either medically or surgically (3 males and 8 females) with an age rangefrom 22-60 years.