Twenty previously untreated patients with Graves’ disease were treated with short-term methimazole therapy. The thyroid function

serum Ig and serum enzyme were determined before and at the end of the treatment and also six months after treatment. The results showed that ten of the twenty patients remained remission(50%)

the remission rate of short-term antithyroid drug therapy with single daily dose was similar to that of classical one

The disease was easily to relapse if the blood vessel murmur of the thyroid gland was still heard at the end of treatment