Tratamiento médico del hipertiroidismo

Hyperthyroidism is a rather common disease that affects 0.2% of general population in Europe. There are many causes as well as various pathogenic mechanisms inducing a hypersecretion of thyroid hormones. Therefore, treatments are selected for each cause to obtain the highest therapeutic benefit. Is this chapter we consider the treatment of common causes such as Graves-disease, toxic multinodular goiter, toxic adenoma and other more infrequent entities such as several subtypes of thyroiditis and, finally, we briefly comment on rare cases of thyroid hyperfunction.