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Development of Graves' disease in a patient under immunosuppressive therapy after liver transplantation.
Journal of endocrinological investigation - 1 Mar 2003
Bednarczuk T, Makowska U, Nauman J
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to Graves' disease (GD) is determined by multiple environmental and genetic factors, which are not fully understood. Because of the autoimmune etiology of the disease, recent reports describing the development of GD during long-term immunosuppressive treatment seem quite surprising. We report a second case of GD in a 17-yr old patient, treated with cyclosporin A and prednisone, after liver...
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