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All right, the drug of the day today is propyl thio-eurosome.

Now, most of you, if you've heard of this drug, have probably heard it referred by its name PtU,

or the abbreviation PtU.

Brand names of this medication, halosil, and thyracill or two that I've heard.

But overwhelmingly, I've heard folks call it PtU.

So that's probably what you'll hear in your pharmacology classes

and or clinical practice depending upon where you're at.

So this medication is an antithyroid agent.

So, you know, in a broad scheme of things, think the opposite of levo thyroxin,

which is basically supplementing or adding thyroid hormone. So as you could expect,

if it's an antithyroid agent, it's going to be used to manage hyperthyroidism. Graves disease

being kind of a classic example here. Now keep in mind there

are other medical procedures and things we do to manage hyperthyroidism. So medication therapy

like propylophtyotio or so may not be used in that situation. However, it is an option if patients are unable to do the other procedures,

that type of thing, which I'm not going to go into too much detail here. I want to focus on the drug,

but keep in mind that that is certainly an option as well, depending upon the diagnosis and the

situation that we're in.

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