Can extra thyroid hormone stop Graves' disease from coming back?

Original Title

Administration of thyroxine in treated Graves' disease. Effects on the level of antibodies to thyroid-stimulating hormone receptors and on the risk of recurrence of hyperthyroidism.

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Summary

Doctors gave people with an overactive thyroid two different treatments after making their thyroid normal with medicine. One group got extra thyroid hormone pills, the other got dummy pills.

Proposed Mechanism
Thyroxine suppression of TSH reduces thyroid antigen release and autoantibody production
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Authors

Hashizume K, Ichikawa K, Sakurai A, Suzuki S, Takeda T, Kobayashi M, Miyamoto T, Arai M, Nagasawa T