Uses
- short-term use (1-3 months) - so to render patients euthyroid before definitive treatment e.g. with surgery or radio-iodine
- long-term (12 to 24 months after the patients' thyrotoxicosis is controlled) - this may be used in the hope of the achieval of lasting remission in patients with Graves' hyperthyroidism
- both propylthiouracil and carbimazole are ineffective in the treatment of thyroiditis
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