Broncho-Pneumonia in a Cretin before and after Treatment with Thyroid

Broncho-Pneumonia in a Cretin before and after Treatment with Thyroid.

(From the Slough Emergency Hospital, E.M.S.) Owing to the lowered general metabolism, a hypothyroid person, whether suffering from cretinism or myxoedema, would be expected to react to an acute infection in a subnormal fashion, and it is generally recognized that this is what actually occurs. Rarely, however, can it be possible to witness an acute infection attacking an individual, first in the...

Lipoprotein (a) levels in thyroid dysfunction before and after treatment.

AIM To investigate the possible effects of thyroid hormones on the lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)) serum concentration. METHODS Eleven patients with hyperthyroidism (Grave's disease), 18 patients with hypothyroidism and low Lp(a) (Hashimoto's disease), and 13 patients with hypothyroidism (Hashimoto's disease) and elevated Lp(a) were examined before and after thyroid hormone normalization. The measure...

Thoracic CT Scan Findings in Patients with HIV/TB co-infection before and after treatment

Background and Aim: Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) infection is common in patients infected with the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In this study, we evaluated thoracic CT scan findings of HIV/TB co-infection, before and after anti-TB treatment. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, pre-and post-treatment thoracic CT scans of patients diagnosed with HIV and defin...

Comparing Quality of Life Before and After Surgery in Patients with Cushing Disease: A Before-After Study

The Open-Air-Treatment of Broncho-Pneumonia Complicating Whooping-Cough

Those who only see whooping-cough in good class practice do not perhaps realise how serious it is liable to be in the children of the poor. The mortality in Edinburgh for a period of five years ending 1900 was '48 per thousand persons living' in fact nearly one-third of the whole zymotic death-rate was caused by this disease. As the children of the better classes rarely succumb to whooping-coug...