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R E Merceron

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PubMed1979

Plasma testosterone and the diagnosis of panhypopituitarism in women.

Plasma testosterone was shown to be a very sensitive index of panhypopituitarism in women. In 18 women, testosterone levels were found to be 0.06 +/- 0.04 ng/ml (mean +/- SD; normal, 0.40 +/- 0.10 ng/ml). In all patients, the values were below 2 SD of testosterone levels found in normal women. Dihydrotestosterone concentrations were similarly modified. Such an important decrease in plasma testosterone was probably due to the additional effect produced by the functional suppression of both sources of testosterone precursors: the adrenals and the ovaries.

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PubMed1979

[Oestrogen therapy of osteoporosis (author's transl)].

Twenty women with physiological (11) or post-operative (9) lack of oestrogen and progesterone developed progressively painful decalcifying osteosis. Improvement was obtained (after eliminating all contra-indications) by treatment with an oestrogen (17-bêta oestradiol-14 times) associated with a progesterone (14 times ) and increased calcium and phosphates (11 times). Clinical improvement was still present after a period varying from 6 to 36 months, with disappearance of the pain symptoms in 7 cases, and very great improvement in 9 cases. After 6 months of treatment there was also a significant reduction in the biological signs of bone resorption (blood phosphorus levels, calcium-creatinine ratio in morning urine specimens taken after fasting, total calcium in a 24-hour urine specimen). The improvement noted, both clinically and biologically, confirms the effect of oestrogens in reducing bone resorption, underlines their preventive and also curative action, and makes them suitable for use in decalcifying osteosis due to hormone lack, after eliminating all contra-indications and under strict regular supervision (breasts and endometrium).

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PubMed1978

Effect of parathyroid hormone on plasma prolactin in man.

The iv infusion of parathyroid extract or the synthetic fragments of 1-34 bovine or human parathyroid hormone produced a rapid and marked increase of plasma PRL in normal subjects. The stimulation of the release of endogenous parathyroid hormone by administration of disodium EDTA also resulted in a parallel increase of plasma PRL. Parathyroid hormone did not act via plasma cAMP, as the plasma level reached by this nucleotide was too small to produce PRL release. The ingestion of L-dopa 2 h before parathyroid hormone infusion suppressed the PRL response, suggesting that dopamine and parathyroid hormone interact at a common site. As it has been recently shown that PRL stimulates the renal synthesis of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, the present data suggest that the effect of parathyroid hormone on this synthesis may be due to the increase in plasma PRL.

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[Acquired pseudohypoparathyroidism/(PHP) in adult coeliac disease (MCA)].

One case of chronic hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia, with an adult coeliac disease, hight P.T.H. level, very low rate of cyclic A.M.P. in urine, and normal rate of cyclid A.M.P. in plasma is described. It is the question of the pseudohypoparathyroidism acquirec as a result of an adult coeliac disease, because of after seven months of diet without gluten the clinical and biological improvement was observed with the increase of the cyclic-AMP clearance into the normal level and its great reactivity on the administration of exogenous PTH. We think to bring an additional analysis of the trouble of renal receptivity to parathyroid hormone.

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[Contribution of radioimmunologic determination of parathyroid hormone (PTH) to the diagnosis of hyperparathyroidism (HPT) (38 cases].

The P.T.H. radioimmunoassay was done in 38 cases of suspected H.P.T. In confirmed primary H.P.T., the dosage was in positive correlation in 75% of cases; the classic metabolic exploration was in good correlation in 81% of cases. The specificity of the dosage is good but the defect of correlation comes from the antiserum utilised which recognizes the NH2-terminal region of human P.T.H.

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[Radioimmunological determination of calcitonin (TCT) in the course of thyroid tumor pathology (84 cases)].

The dosage of calcitonin was done in 13 thyroid carcinoma and 71 begnin thyroid tumors. In one case, the preoperative diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma (M.T.C.) was alloved; in one another case of M.T.C. the repeatted dosage allows the evolution survey and the exploration of the family; in a third case, the dosage allows to doubt the diagnosis of M.T.C. in post-mortem. In 71 cases of begnin thyroid tumors, the calcitonin immunoassay is in the normal range. The interest and limits of the preoperative dosage was drawn of this experience.

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