Grave's Disease Which Was Diagnosed after Thymectomy

IGF1 deficiency in newly diagnosed Graves' disease patients.

OBJECTIVE Thyroid hormones influence the GH/IGF1 axis, but previous studies have reported discrepant results regarding serum IGF1 levels in hyperthyroidism. We have therefore investigated, at diagnosis, the relationship between serum IGF1 levels and the main characteristics of Graves' disease (GD): severity of hyperthyroidism, goiter size, presence of active Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO), antythy...

An infant Presenting with Cerebrovascular Accident was Diagnosed as a Sickle Cell Disease Patient: a Case Report

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a known inherited hemoglobin disorder featured by the presence of sickle shaped erythrocytes in the blood. It can cause cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in adults and children and is responsible for the majority of the strokes in children. Repeated blood transfusion are often required in an attempt to dilute blood thus reducing the risk of vaso-occlusion and stroke in...

Postoperative management after thymectomy.

This paper reports a retrospective study of the preoperative and postoperative management of 28 patients who underwent thymectomy between 1956 and 1973. Patients who received postoperative artificial ventilation were compared with the group who did not with respect to sex, age, severity of disease, preoperative vital capacity, and thymic histology. Evidence is presented that postoperative artif...

Hydrops Fetalis of unknown etiology in a 32 weeks pregnancy which was diagnosed as congenital neurosyphilis

Congenital syphilis occurs when the spirochete Treponema Pallidum is transmitted from a pregnant woman through the placenta. It can result in stillbirth, prematurity or other multiple clinical manifestations. The congenital condition usually occurs to women with no or scant prenatal care. Humans are the only natural host for Treponema Pallidum and so transmission usually occurs through the plac...

[Graves' disease].