The success of the first biological treatment for a patient suffering from “Griffs” disease in Jizan

King Fahd Central Hospital in Jazan Health Assembly managed to provide an innovative biological treatment for a young man who suffers from severe symptoms indicating hyperthyroidism, including heart palpitations, weight loss and neck swelling. The patient faced additional symptoms in the eye such as “double vision, pain at the movement of the eyes, swelling and redness of conjunctiva and eyelid The sight “, laboratory and photographic tests showed its diagnosis with” Griffs “disease with the pressure of the thyroid gland on the optic nerve.

Despite the start of traditional therapy that included thyroid gland and high venous doses of steroid over a period of two months, no improvement in the patient’s condition has occurred, so that the medical team completed its steps and started using the first authorized biological treatment in the Kingdom for this type of cases, and applied for 7 sessions.

Thanks to God Almighty, the patient witnessed a remarkable improvement in his condition, his eyesight returned to normal and the eye has decreased significantly.

It is mentioned that the “Graves” disease is a self -immune disorder that is one of the causes of hyperthyroidism and occurs when the immune system produces antibodies that stimulate the thyroid gland to secrete excess amounts of thyroid hormones, which leads to an increase in the metabolic rate that can cause a group of symptoms.