Thyroid Hormones in Patients with Acute Exacerbations of Pneumoconiosis.

• Kawakami Makoto

  First Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya City University

• Usami Ikuji

  Department of Respiratory Disease, Asahi Rosai Hospital

• Kuroki Hideaki

  Department of Respiratory Disease, Asahi Rosai Hospital

• Goto Masahiro

  Department of Respiratory Disease, Asahi Rosai Hospital

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• じん肺患者の急性増悪時における甲状腺機能の検討

Abstract

Thyroid hormone levels in serum were measured in 34 patients with acute exacerbations of pneumoconiosis. Levels of free T₃ were below the normal range in 26 patients, and 12 of those patients (46.2%) died. Levels of free T₃ were within the normal range in 8 patients, and only of those patients died. Having a T₃ level within the normal range was associated with a good outcome.<br>Levels of free T₃ measured during acute exacerbations were significantly lower than those measured when the disease was clinically stable. Patients who died tended to have lower levels of free T₃ than did those who survived. These results suggest that levels of free T₃ in serum samples taken during an acute exacerbation can helpful in predicting the outcome of pneumoconiosis.

Journal

• The Japanese journal of thoracic diseases

  The Japanese journal of thoracic diseases 33 (8), 846-849, 1995

  The Japanese Respiratory Society

Keywords

• Pneumoconiosis
• Acute exacerbation
• Thyroid hormone
• Prognosis

Details

• CRID: 1390001205017981824
• NII Article ID: 130003678851
• NII Article ID: 10008107693
• NII Book ID: AN00187758
• DOI: 10.11389/jjrs1963.33.846
• ISSN: 1883471X
• ISSN: 03011542
• PubMed: 7474564
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/1996032364
• Text Lang: ja
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