1 Most Graves' disease eye symptoms are so mild that treatment is not needed.

2 Graves' disease is one of the important autoimmune thyroid diseases to cause hyperthyroidism.

3 Out of 615 patients with Graves' disease who accepted the treatment of antithyroid drugs (ATD), 215 (34.9%) developed toxic effects of the drugs.

4 Results: About half of the pregnant women with Graves' disease and part of newborn infants presented hyperthyroid status that ment the mothers have got inadequate antithyroid drug therapy.

5 Thus, the majority of children with Graves' disease will need definitive, curative therapy.

6 Pathological results showed 43 cases of thyroid adenoma, 58 cases of nodular goiter, 5 cases of Graves' disease, 3 cases of thyroid cancer, and 4 cases of Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

7 When used at sufficient doses, radioactive iodine is an effective cure for Graves' disease and is associated with few acute side effects.

8 The CBLB gene and autoimmune thyroid disease in children-Case- control study Graves' disease, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are multi-genes complex diseases.

9 Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO), or more accurately thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy, is a common cause of morbidity and discomfort in patients with Graves' disease.

10 Objective: To discuss the effect of maternal thyroid functions with Graves' disease on the thyroid status of their newborn infants.