Graves' disease and radioiodine therapy. Is success of ablation dependent on the choice of thyreostatic medication?
Thyrostatic treatment with PTU achieves excellent results in ablative RIT, using an accurate dosimetric approach with an achieved post-therapeutic dose of more than 200 Gy.
Presenting features currently noted in the Ministry of Health's health education resource material are appropriate. Public health specialists dealing with the media should ensure that appropriate messages are incorporated into media reports. A greater use of the term 'meningococcal disease' by both public health agencies and media would convey to the public the message that this disease has a spectrum of presenting features, with those of septicaemia more common, but also indicating an even greater need for urgency of action than with 'classical' meningitic features.