ACTH and cortisone in diffuse collagen disease and chronic dermatoses; differential therapeutic effects
| Autor: | S. Howard Armstrong, Edwin N. Irons, John P. Ayer, R. Gordon Brown |
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| Rok vydání: | 1951 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Collagen disease business.industry Therapeutic effect Collagen Diseases Acute rheumatic fever Disease Adrenocorticotropic hormone medicine.disease Dermatology Skin Diseases Cortisone Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Disseminated lupus erythematosus Rheumatoid arthritis Immunology Chronic Disease medicine Collagen business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Medical Association. 145(12) |
| ISSN: | 0002-9955 |
| Popis: | This is a report of our experience with 16 patients under therapy with pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone and cortisone for a number of the diffuse "collagen diseases" associated with severe, chronic dermatoses. A considerable body of information has appeared in recent months dealing with the general aspects of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone and cortisone therapy and with commonly encountered complications. Striking alterations in disease processes through the use of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone and cortisone have been amply demonstrated by investigators working with Hench,1Thorn,2Baehr3and others.4The diseases affected include rheumatoid arthritis, acute rheumatic fever, disseminated lupus erythematosus and a number of the chronic dermatoses. The range indicates that cortisone and allied corticosteroids are not specific antirheumatics, but have a specificity for some factor common to all these diseases. The alteration in disease processes toward remission has, in general, been temporary or incomplete. However, in those instances |
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