ESPE Abstracts

Background: Graves' disease is a rare autoimmune disorder in children. Its incidence is 0.1/100,000 person-years in young children and 3/100,000 person-years in adolescents. It is related to the production of TSH-stimulating autoantibodies occurring on a particular genetic predisposition. The particularity of Graves' disease in children is the risk of relapse after medical treatment, which is more frequent than in adults with a frequency of around 30...