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とらちゃん、はじめまして、田尻淳一です。このBBSでは大家のオヤジのニックネームですので、その名前でお答えさせていただきます。ご了承ください。
返事が遅れまして、申し訳ありません。わたくし、夜が弱く、朝しかBBSを見ませんので。まずは、お詫びを。
日本語は大変お上手ですよ。家では、日本語で話されているのでしょう?
欧米では、『Graves病(グレイブズ病)』と呼びます。日本とバセドウ博士の本国ドイツでは『バセドウ病』と呼びます。『Graves病(グレイブズ病)』も『バセドウ病』同じ病気です。
synthroid(シントロイド)は甲状腺ホルモン剤で日本では、チラージンSといいます。synthroid(シントロイド)は25マイクログラムから300マイクログラムまでの11種類の量の錠剤がありますが、チラージンSは25と50マイクログラムの2種類だけです。それも、1年前までは50マイクログラムの1種類だけというお粗末さでした。アメリカは、患者さんに便利なように考えていますね。日本の薬品会社は、儲からないクスリには力を入れないようです。チラージンSは1錠が10円程度のクスリです。アメリカとカナダで入手できるクスリを示します。これは、日本の他の患者さんにも知って欲しいからです。
●http://www.j-tajiri.or.jp/source/translation/b/06/01.html
あなたが言われている治療法は日本の研究者が1991年にNew England Journal of Medicine(NEJM)という世界最高の医学総合雑誌に掲載しました。当時は、みんな驚いたものです。しかし、それから、世界中で追試が行われ、同じ結果がでませんでした。今の考えは、あなたの言われるBRTは効かないという認識が一般的です。もし、本当に、彼が言うように98%の寛解率があるのなら、誰がしても同じ結果がでなければなりません。
そのような理由で、アメリカの医師に限らず、日本の医師もそのやり方には疑問を持っています。わたしも、発表を聞いたときに変だと思いました。日本でも、その後、数ヶ所の施設で同じ治療法が検討されましたが、結果は彼の言うものとは違っていました。彼の論文をMEDLINEで引きました。長いですが最後に引用します。NEJMのオリジナルは1993年以降しかありませんでした。MEDLINEから、Full
paperを注文できます。図書館に行っても、バックナンバーを探せばありますよ。以下に、MEDLINEのページを示します。検索項目に「Hashizume
K」と「Hyperthyroidism」を入力して検索すれば17の論文が出てきます。その中から以下の論文を探して、注文されては。
●http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/index.html
治療法の選択は、患者さん自身が行うものですので、一応はBRTを受けてみて、効かなければ、そのとき別の治療法を考えれば良いでしょう。
また、なにかありましたら、いつでもどうぞ。Good luck!!
- J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1992 Jul; 75(1): 6-10(雑誌名)
Effect of administration of thyroxine on the risk of postpartum recurrence
of hyperthyroid Graves' disease.(タイトル)
Hashizume K, Ichikawa K, Nishii Y, Kobayashi M, Sakurai A, Miyamoto
T, Suzuki S, Takeda T(著者)
Department of Geriatrics, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shinshu University
School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.(施設)
In our previous study, we reported that the administration of T4 to
patients with Graves' disease who were under treatment with methimazole
(MMI) decreased the level of antibodies to thyroid-stimulating hormone
(TSH) receptors and the rate of recurrence of hyperthyroidism. In this
study, the effect of T4 administration on the rate of postpartum recurrence
of hyperthyroidism was examined. Seventy-eight patients with Graves'
disease had been treated with MMI for 1-3 yr before pregnancy, and MMI
was discontinued 5-6 months after the onset of pregnancy because the
levels of antibodies to TSH receptors decreased during early pregnancy.
The patients were then divided into two groups. Group A (n = 40) was
given T4 (100 micrograms/day) and group B (n = 38) was not given any
drugs from 5 months after the onset of pregnancy until 1 yr after delivery.
The levels of the antibodies to TSH receptors and serum concentrations
of thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) and T4 were not different between
the two groups before and during pregnancy, although a transient increase
in serum T4 and TBG concentrations were observed during the pregnancy
in both groups.
After delivery, levels of antibodies to TSH receptors increased in both
groups. The rate of increase, however, was more rapid in group B than
in group A. The levels were significantly higher in group B than A at
3, 6, 9, and 12 months after delivery. Serum T4 and TBG concentrations
decreased after delivery in both groups. Serum concentrations of T4
increased after delivery in group B but not in group A. The concentration
of T4 was significantly higher in group B than in group A at 9 and 12
months after delivery. Postpartum recurrence of hyperthyroidism was
5.0% in group A and 31.6% in group B, respectively, during the first
year after delivery.
These results suggest that administration of T4 during pregnancy and
after delivery is effective in decreasing the level ofantibodies to
TSH receptors and to prevent the postpartum recurrence of hyperthyroidism.
- N Engl J Med 1991 Apr 4; 324(14): 947-53
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.
Hashizume K, Ichikawa K, Sakurai A, Suzuki S, Takeda T, Kobayashi M,
Miyamoto T, Arai M, Nagasawa T
Department of Geriatrics, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, Shinshu University
School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
BACKGROUND. Antibodies to thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptors
that stimulate the thyroid gland cause hyperthyroidism in patients with
Graves' disease, and their production during antithyroid drug treatment
is an important determinant of the course of the disease. One factor
that might contribute to the persistent production of antibodies to
TSH receptors is stimulation of the release of thyroid antigens by TSH
during antithyroid drug therapy. We therefore studied the effect of
the suppression of TSH secretion by thyroxine on the levels of antibodies
to TSH receptors after thyroid hormone secretion had been normalized
by methimazole.
METHODS AND RESULTS. The levels of antibodies to TSH receptors were
measured during treatment with methimazole, either alone or in combination
with thyroxine, in 109 patients with hyperthyroidism due to Graves'
disease. The patients first received 30 mg of methimazole daily for
six months. All were euthyroid after six months, and their mean (+/-
SD) level of antibodies to TSH receptors decreased from 64 +/- 9 percent
to 25 +/- 15 percent (P less than 0.01; normal, 2.9 +/- 1.4 percent).
Sixty patients then received 100 micrograms of thyroxine and 10 mg of
methimazole and 49 received placebo and 10 mg of methimazole daily for
one year. In the thyroxine-treated group, the mean serum thyroxine concentration
increased from 108 +/- 16 nmol per liter to 145 +/- 11 nmol per liter
(P less than 0.01), and the level of antibodies to TSH receptors decreased
from 28 +/- 10 percent to 10 +/- 3 percent after one month of combination
therapy. In the patients who received placebo and methimazole, the mean
serum thyroxine concentration decreased and the level of antibodies
to TSH receptors did not change. Methimazole, but not thyroxine or placebo,
was discontinued in each group 1.5 years after the beginning of treatment.
The level of antibodies to TSH receptors further decreased (from 6.6
+/- 3.2 percent at the time methimazole was discontinued to 2.1 +/-
1.2 percent one year later) in the patients who continued to receive
thyroxine, but it increased (from 9.1 +/- 4.8 percent to 17.3 +/- 5.8
percent during the same period) in the patients who received placebo.
One patient in the thyroxine-treated group (1.7 percent) and 17 patients
in the placebo group (34.7 percent) had recurrences of hyperthyroidism
within three years after the discontinuation of methimazole.
CONCLUSIONS. The administration of thyroxine during antithyroid drug
treatment decreases both the production of antibodies to TSH receptors
and the frequency of recurrence ofhyperthyroidism.
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