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Thyroid disease and muscle dysfunction.
Thyroid Disease and Muscle Dysfunction covers the pioneering work of the author in the study of muscle dysfunction in patients with thyrotoxicosis. His contributions on this subject represent real advances in the understanding of metabolic muscle disease. This book is written to clarify the associat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Heinemann Medical,
1974.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Thyroid Disease and Muscle Dysfunction; Copyright Page; Dedication; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; CHAPTER 1. THYROTOXIC MYOPATHY; Analysis of the literature on 73 patients wiht ""chronic thyrotoxic myopathy""; Unselected thyrotoxic piatients; Electromyography; Achilles tendon reflex time; Biochemistry; Muscle potassium and sodium; Creatine and creatinine metabolism; Calcium and magnesium metabolism; Pyridoxine; Muscle enzymes; Steroid hormone metabolism in thyrotoxicosis; Muscle pathology; Electron microscopy ; Experimental pathology
- Relationship between structure and functionAetiology of myopathy; Why proximal myopathy?; The role of catecholamines in thyrotoxic myopathy; Differential diagnosis of thyrotoxic myopathy; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2. THYROID DISEASE AND MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; Prevalence; Investigations; D-Tubocurarine; Decamethonium; Electromyography; Pathology of muscle; Types of fibre atrophy; Motor nerve endings; Pathology of the thymus; In myasthenia gravis; In Thyrotoxicosis; Endocrine function of the thymus; Thymoma and thyrotoxicosis; Thymectomy; Myasthenia gravis, hypothyroidism and thyroidtis
- The thymus in myasthenic patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis or myxoedemaEffect of hypothyroidism on myasthenia; Association of myasthenia gravis with other thyroid diease; Hereditary factors; The site of action of thyroid hormone in myasthenia gravis; Conclusions; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3. THYROTOXIC PERIODIC PARALYSIS; Prevalence; Clinical features; Induction of attacks; The effect of thyroid hormone; Potassium and sodium; Magnesium and calcium; (Satoyoshi et al.,1963a); Carbohydrate metabolism; Light microscopy; Electron microscopy; Aetiology; REFERENCES
- CHAPTER 4. MUSCULAR ABNORMALITIES OF HYPOTHYROIDISMKocher-Debr�e-Semelaigne syndrome; Hoffman's syndrome; Muscle atrophy; Other muscle diseases; Hypothyroid myopathy; Hypothyroid neuropathy; Reflex duration; Electromyography; Biochemistry; Creatine and creatinine; Creatine phosphokinase; Other muscle enzymes; Magnesium; Sodium and potassium; Pathology; Aetiology of hypothyroid myopathy; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5. THYROID FUNCTION IN MISCELLANEOUS MUSCLE DISORDERS; Myotonia congenita; Myotonic dystrophy; Muscular dystrophy; INDEX