THE BINDING OF HAEMOGLOBIN BY PLASMA PROTEINS (HAPTOGLOBINS) - ITS BEARING ON THE RENAL THRESHOLD FOR HAEMOGLOBIN AND THE AETIOLOGY OF HAEMOGLOBINURIA
THE BINDING OF HAEMOGLOBIN BY PLASMA PROTEINS (HAPTOGLOBINS) - ITS BEARING ON THE RENAL THRESHOLD FOR HAEMOGLOBIN AND THE AETIOLOGY OF HAEMOGLOBINURIA
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DOI:
10.1136/bmj.2.5054.1137
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发表时间:
1957-01-01
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通讯作者:
REES, W
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作者:
ALLISON, AC;REES, W
The cases are presented of 24 patients with various diseases who had negative tuberculin reactions. Whilst treated with cortisone or prednisolone in moderate or low dosage the tuberculin reaction became positive at the same or higher dilutions in 20 of the cases. The-patients were mostly elderly, or showed frank signs of suprarenal cortical suppression. The suggestion is made that steroid treatment, although able to suppress a positive tuberculin reaction when given in high dosage, may, given in lower dosage, actually restore a reaction which has been suppressed by age, infection, or suprarenal deficiency. The implications of these findings and their possible application to the treatment of severe infections, especially in the elderly, are discussed.I thank the physicians of the Aylesbury Hospitals for permis-sion to investigate their patients, and in particular Dr. Wilfred Stokes and Dr. M. Saxty Good for much valuable advice and criticism. I also thank Dr. L. Nunn for the biochemical investi-gations and the nursing staff for assistance with the tuberculin reactions.