This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

WITH A STUDY OF PLASMA PROTHROMBIN LEVELS IN THE IMMEDIATE POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD

JERE W. LORD, Jr., M.D.; WILLIAM DeW. ANDRUS, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1941;42(4):643-660.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

During the past nine years considerable interest has been aroused concerning the state of the liver in patients with hyperthyroidism, and excellent studies of the morphologic and physiologic changes in this organ associated with increased activity of the thyroid gland have been reported. Despite the evidence of such a possible relation, however, many patients with hyperthyroidism are treated without regard for hepatic function so far as the type of diet is concerned. Attention has been focused on a high caloric intake, with disregard of the carbohydrate-fat ratio and the vitamin requirements.

ANATOMIC CHANGES

Cameron and Karunaratne¹ have summarized the development of knowledge concerning the hepatic changes accompanying hyperthyroidism, and Boyce and McFetridge² have reviewed the significant clinical and pathologic contributions which have been made to this subject in recent years.

In 1932, Weller,³ in studying the morphologic changes in the livers of 48 patients who died with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Surgery of the New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College.

Footnotes
This study was carried out under a grant from the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?