Reiter's Syndrome and Cortisone

Landry-Guillain-Barré syndrome; treatment with ACTH and cortisone.

Landry paralysis and the Guillain-Barre syndrome are not distinct entities and the differentiation, between these two diseases, is artificial (Lewy, 1945). Haymaker and Kernohan (I949) in their review on these diseases, supporting Lewy's view, proposed a new terminology of Landy-Guillain-Barre syndrome. Landry in I859 made the earliest description of the Guillain-Barre syndrome. Osler in I892 d...

Cortisone and its analogues in the nephrotic syndrome.

If ACTH, cortisone, hydrocortisone, prednisone or prednisolone is given in appropriate doses for two or three weeks to a patient suffering from the nephrotic syndrome, it is sometimes accompanied or followed by a series of events, the most striking of which (as noted by Farnsworth, I950) is a profuse diuresis. Less often, however, there is in addition a cessation of proteinuria. It is proposed ...

Cortisone and ACTH.

[Cortisone and heparin].

Though the abundant data published in the literature concerning the influence of cortisone on the thrombo-plastic powers of the blood is varied and sometimes even contradictory, we have concentrated our attention on the eventual influence of cortisone on heparin, the main factor of the circulating anti-coagulating substances. This decision was taken in consideration of the supposed existence of...

Parotid fluid cortisol and cortisone.

Parotid fluid corticosteroids, substantially comprised of cortisol and cortisone, were previously demonstrated to rise to far greater levels 4 hr after administration of ACTH than they did in the third trimester of pregnancy, although the plasma total corticosteroid concentrations were similar in these two states. It was therefore suggested that only nonproteinbound corticosteroid gains access ...