[Indicators of the T- and B-systems of immunity in patients with diffuse toxic goiter]

Several indices of the function of T- and B-immune systems were determined in patients with diffuse toxic goiter before treatment and at thyrotoxicosis compensatory stage. Sensitization of lymphocytes to thyroglobulin was observed in the majority of patients with the decompensatory stage of the disease. The experimental results of the lymphocyte migration inhibition test were not dependent on patient's sex and/or age, endocrine ophthalmopathy occurrence and titers of antibody to thyroglobulin. The function of T- and B-immune systems tended to normal in the treatment process.