Thalassaemia in a Gurkha Family
Thalassaemia in a Gurkha Family
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廓尔喀家族的地中海贫血
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.1.5187.1711
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发表时间:
1960
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通讯作者:
F. Vella
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作者:
D. Weatherall;F. Vella
cases, but noted the occurrence of endometrial carcinoma in cases with long histories. Kaufman et al. (1959) found a higher incidence of endometrial hyperplasia, as we have done. It may be suggested that the diagnosis in some of these cases should therefore be metropathia haemorrhagica. However, typical cases of metropathia haemorrhagica do not have periods of amenorrhoea lasting longer than three months. At this hospital cystic glandular hyperplasia is found more often than was formerly suspected, and it may occur in patients who are menstruating regularly. It is sometimes found in association with corpora lutea, and pregnancy has been seen to occur in a uterus which showed cystic glandular hyperplasia. The earlier and larger series of cases quoted do not appear to have had routine endometrial biopsies taken, and it is possible that many more would have shown this histological picture. The results of wedge resection in group 1 show that regular menstruation has not persisted for longer than six months, with the exception of two women who became pregnant two and three years respectively after operation. In group 2, where ovulation was occurring, of the six patients followed up, two had menstruated normally for more than a year. Regular menstrual periods had occurred in one patient for six months, but after this time she relapsed into amenorrhoea. The other three patients were still menstruating regularly at the end of four months, but a longer follow-up is not available. Stein (1958) has reported re-establishment of normal menstruation in 95% of patients, and 88% of his cases became pregnant.