THYROID FUNCTION AND PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.

Lah, Soo Sup; Lee, Chan Sae; Lee, Chung Dong

doi:1964.0.18.33

Tuberc Respir Dis > Issue 18; 1964 > Article

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1964;18:33-36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1964.18.1.33 Published online December 1, 1964.

THYROID FUNCTION AND PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.

Soo Sup Lah, Chan Sae Lee, Chung Dong Lee

Department of Internal Medicine, Catholic Medical College, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

The relationship between thyroid function and pulmonary tuberculosis has often been the theme of discussion in clinical medicine since the era of Rokitansky and virchow. Though of late certain relationship in this respect has been confirmed by Schaefer, Lurie Takao, Mori, Ogata and other investigators through animal experimental and clinical studies those results failed to yield conformity. Authors, therefore, felt that his point should be clarified and with this in mind made a thyroid function studies utilizing radioactive I¹³¹ to thirty patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and at the same time patients with various thyroid diseases were evaluated as to the incidence of tuberculosis as a complication. Conclusions are, as follows; (1) As seen through I¹³¹ studies on thirty patients with pulmonary tuberculosis no definite relation could be established between tuberculosis and thyroid function. (2) No specific relationship also could be found in the incidence of tuberculosis as a complication among the patients with various thyroid diseases and in the incidence of tuberculosis between the patients with thyroid diseases and the general medical patients. (3) the frequency of palpable simple thyroid enlargement was larger with tuberculosis patients than non-tuberculous out-patients of medical department.