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Departments of Nuclear Medicine (W.-A.N., D.A.H.) and Radiology (H.C.v.d.B.), Catharina Hospital, 5602 ZA Eindhoven, The Netherlands; and Departments of Endocrinology (W.-A.N., A.R.H.), Chemical Endocrinology (C.G.S., H.A.R.), and Nuclear Medicine (F.H.C.), University Medical Center Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: W.-A. Nieuwlaat, M.D., Department of Endocrinology, University Medical Center Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. E-mail: w.nieuwlaat{at}endo.umcn.nl.
In patients with nodular goiter, radioiodine (131I) therapy results in a mean reduction in thyroid volume (TV) of approximately 40% after 1 yr. We have demonstrated that pretreatment with a single, low dose of recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) doubles 24-h radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) in these patients. We have now studied the safety and efficacy of therapy with a reduced dose of 131I after pretreatment with rhTSH.
Twenty-two patients with nodular goiter received 131I therapy, 24 h after im administration of 0.01 (n = 12) or 0.03 (n = 10) mg rhTSH. In preceding diagnostic studies using tracer doses of 131I, 24-h RAIU without and with rhTSH pretreatment (either 0.01 or 0.03 mg) were compared. Therapeutic doses of 131I were adjusted to the rhTSH-induced increases in 24-h RAIU and were aimed at 100 µCi/g thyroid tissue retained at 24 h. Pretreatment with rhTSH allowed dose reduction of 131I therapy by a factor of 1.9 ± 0.5 in the 0.01-mg and by a factor of 2.4 ± 0.4 in the 0.03-mg rhTSH group (P < 0.05, 0.01 vs. 0.03 mg rhTSH). Before and 1 yr after therapy, TV and the smallest cross-sectional area of the tracheal lumen were measured with magnetic resonance imaging. During the year of follow-up, serum TSH, free T4 (FT4), T3, and TSH receptor antibodies were measured at regular intervals.
TV before therapy was 143 ± 54 ml in the 0.01-mg group and 103 ± 44 ml in the 0.03-mg rhTSH group. One year after treatment, TV reduction was 35 ± 14% (0.01 mg rhTSH) and 41 ± 12% (0.03 mg rhTSH). In both groups, smallest cross-sectional area of the tracheal lumen increased significantly. In the 0.01-mg rhTSH group, serum FT4 rose, after 131I treatment, from 15.8 ± 2.8 to 23.2 ± 4.4 pM. In the 0.03-mg rhTSH group, serum FT4 rose from 15.5 ± 2.5 to 23.5 ± 5.1 pM. Individual peak FT4 levels, reached between 1 and 28 d after 131I treatment, were above the normal range in 12 patients. TSH receptor antibodies were negative in all patients before therapy and became positive in 4 patients. Hyperthyroidism developed in 3 of these 4 patients between 23 and 25 wk after therapy.
In conclusion, in patients with nodular goiter pretreatment with a single, low dose of rhTSH allowed approximately 50–60% reduction of the therapeutic dose of radioiodine without compromising the efficacy of TV reduction.
This work was supported by Genzyme (Naarden, The Netherlands).
Abbreviations: CRP, C-reactive protein; FT4, free T4; NS, not significant; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; RAIU, radioactive iodine uptake; rhTSH, recombinant human TSH; SCAT, smallest cross-sectional area of the tracheal lumen; TRAb, TSH receptor antibody; TV, thyroid volume.
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