Year in Surgical Thyroidology: Part 1

Chemical Developments in Thyroidology

Waksman's classification are laid down on a broad morphologic basis, whereas the species determinations are more largely dependent upon physiologic behavior. The erection of the ordinal group, the Actinomycetales intermediate and distinct from the Eubacteriales and the Eumycetes, reflect the author's feeling that this is a heterogeneous assemblage of organisms which are perhaps not too closely ...

Prevention in thyroidology.

837 IT IS MUCH BETTER for the individual members of society to be healthy and well than to be ill or deceased. This is the main basis of health care (1). To cope with disease, the health care system provides a range of services aimed at cure or control. A different approach to preservation of good health and longevity is the prevention of disease. The major appeal of prevention, when possible, ...

Review: molecular thyroidology.

Novel disorders involving aberrations of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid gland-thyroid hormone axis have been described in the last 5 to 10 years. The following topics are addressed: molecular mutations causing central hypothyroidism (isolated autosomal recessive TRH deficiency; autosomal recessive TRH-receptor inactivating mutations; TSH beta-subunit bio-inactivating mutations; Pit-1 mutati...

Bone Marrow Transplantation in Thalassemia (Part 1)

During the last two decades conventional therapy has improved the prognosis of thalassemia. However, despite such improvement it still remains a progressive disease with treatment-related complications such as hepatitis, liver fibrosis, and cardiac disease. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) can prevent or delay progression of the aforementioned complications. The importance of clinical research...

Clinical Thyroidology for Patients