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Diagnostik und Therapie der Akromegalie
Die seltene und schwerwiegende Akromegalie manifestiert sich mit charakteristischen klinischen Zeichen und Symptomen. Die Diagnose wird oft erst Jahre nach der Erstmanifestation gestellt. Ursächlich ...
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Outcome prediction using clinical scores and biomarkers in patients with presumed severe infection in the emergency department
Severe infections play an important role in the emergency department (ED) and early risk stratification is essential. We compared the prognostic value of APACHE II, SOFA, and MEDS scores, and the biomarkers C-...
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Sonographische Charakterisierung von Narben nach thermischen Verletzungen beim Kind
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The Thyroid Gland. Thyroid Hormones, Their Origin and Their Mechanism of Action
Thyroid hormones (TH) are effectors of an endocrine system that influences development, growth and metabolism of practically all cells and tissues of the mammalian body. They are produced exclusi...
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Thyroid Autoimmunity as a Major Cause for Congenital Hypothyroidism
A causal relationship between maternal autoimmune thyroid disease and congenital hypothyroidism (CH) of the infant has been suggested as early as 1960.1,2 Subsequent observations in single families with maternal ...
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Autoimmune and Autonomous Toxic Goiter: Differentation and Clinical Outcome After Drug Treatment
Our own data presented in this paper are taken from investigations of a multi center prospective study*, in which the following colleagues participate: Althoff (Frankfurt), Badenhoop (Mannheim), Benker (Essen)...
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Thyroid Growth Blocking Antibodies in Congenital Hypothyroidism
The causes of transient and permanent congenital hypothyroidism (CH) have not been entirely clarified, although there is increasing evidence that these diseases might be the result of an Immunological disorder...
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Ion-molecule collisions in gaseous111InCl and111InI systems
Using gaseous sources of111InCl and111InI with densities between 1.0·1017 cm−3 and 4.4·1019 cm−3 the perturbation of the 171.3–245.4 keVγ-γ cascade was measured as a function of time and density by the time-diffe...
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Baroreflex sympathetic activation increases threshold pressure for the pressure-dependent renin release in conscious dogs
Stimulus-response curves relating renal-venous-arterial plasma renin activity difference (P.R.A.-difference) to mean renal artery pressure (R.A.P.) were studied in seven chronically instrumented conscious foxh...
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The auricular myocardiocytes of the heart constitute an endocrine organ characterization of a porcine cardiac peptide hormone, cardiodilatin-126
A peptide hormone was extracted from the porcine right atrium following a bioassay for differential vaso-relaxant effects on smooth muscle strips from aorta and renal and inferior mesenteric arteries. The isol...
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10 years experience with consecutive measurement of thyrotropin binding inhibiting antibodies (TBIAb)
In the present study we reviewed 230 patients in whom thyrotropin-binding inhibiting antibodies (TBIAb) follow-up determinations had been performed up to 10yr after hyperthyroidism had first developed. In 104 ...
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Threshold pressure for the pressure-dependent renin release in the autoregulating kidney of conscious dogs
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The effect of varying renal artery pressure between 160 and 40 mm Hg on renal blood flow and renin release wa...
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Aktuelle Probleme bei Erkrankungen der Schilddrüse
Die erste Anwendung radioaktiver Substanzen in der Diagnostik von Schilddrüsenkrankheiten geht auf das Ende der 30er Jahre zurück [16, 17]. Anfang der 50er Jahre gelang es mit Hilfe des J-131-Zweiphasentests [...
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TSH-Receptor antibodies, HLA B8 and thyroid autoantibodies in patients with Graves' disease in therapeutically induced euthyroidism
The prevalence of TSH-receptor antibodies and of thyroid autoantibodies was studied in 48 HLA-typed patients with Graves' disease, who were in an euthyroid state after antithyroid therapy with methimazole. TSH...
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Determination of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) during the course of Graves’ disease. A reliable indicator for remission and persistence of this disease?
There is no general agreement about the optimal duration of antithyroid drug therapy in Graves’ disease. This study was undertaken to find out whether the determination of thyroid stimulating antibodies (TSI) ...
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The influence of the size of acute ischaemic myocardial lesions on coronary reserve and left ventricular function in the dog
Acute ischaemic lesions of 5 and 15% of the left ventricular mass were produced in 10 dogs by ligations of branches of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Under maximal coronary dilatation by Dipyrid...
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Myokarddurchblutung und Ventrikelfunktion in Abhängigkeit von der Infarktgröße
Vor coronarchirurgischen Eingriffen gewinnt die Messung der Myokarddurchblutung und Ventrikelfunktion zunehmende Bedeutung. Die mit der Argonfremdgasmethode (1) gemessene Myokarddurchblutung und die vom linken Ka...
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Einfluß der koronaren Bypassoperation auf Myokarddruck und Ventrikelfunktion beim Hund
Nach aorto-coronaren Bypass Operationen ist oft keine signifikante Besserung der Ventrikelfunktion nachzuweisen (1, 2, 4). Deshalb wird in den vorliegenden Tierexperimenten untersucht, ob nach myokardialer Rev...
