hyperactive thyroidの例文

• In 1991, he learned the source of his ill health : a hyperactive thyroid.
• Evans worked with Dr . James Howard Means of Harvard Medical School in finding ways to use radioactive iodine to diagnose and treat hyperactive thyroids.
• Since the treatment often eventually knocks out the hormone-producing tissue, sooner or later those with hyperactive thyroids will become hypothyroid and need to take replacement hormones.
• The 131 I is thus used as direct radioisotope therapy to treat hyperthyroidism due to Graves'disease, and sometimes hyperactive thyroid nodules ( abnormally active thyroid tissue that is not malignant ).
• Although the cause of the condition is often never determined, reasons can include a hyperactive thyroid, flu or infection, a heart defect that was present at birth, or overgrowth of the heart muscle.
• One patient who won her appeal was Dora Cisneros, 34, of Tomball, just north of Houston, who said she suffered from chronic pain since being treated for a hyperactive thyroid two years ago.
• Since the thyroid gland takes up iodine, the amount of radioactive isotope taken up told researchers how active the gland was; by increasing the dose of radioactive iodine, researchers could slow a hyperactive thyroid by destroying some of its tissue.