Elmer C. Bartels

LIVER FUNCTION IN HYPERTHYROIDISM AS DETERMINED BY THE HIPPURIC ACID TEST

Excerpt It has long been accepted that the liver undergoes pathologic changes in hyperthyroidism. A clinical manifestation of this liver damage is the occasional presence of jaundice of the hepatic...

Hyperthyroidism; an evaluation of treatment with antithyroid drugs followed by subtotal thyroidectomy.

Excerpt Since soon after the discovery of the new antithyroid drugs it appeared that these substances did not have specific curative properties for definitive treatment of hyperthyroidism, we began...

GOUT—NOW AMENABLE TO CONTROL

Excerpt Gout, one of mans oldest known afflictions, has for many years defied consistently effective and sustained control. The use of colchicine, a drug long associated with the disease gout, has...

Use of thiouracil in the preoperative preparation of patients with severe hyperthyroidism.

Excerpt A preliminary report on the use of thiouracil in the preoperative management of 12 toxic hyperthyroid patients at the Lahey Clinic was published in May 1944.1We were convinced of the effect...

SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF GOUT

Excerpt Gout has received widespread publicity during the last 10 years, with most writers giving attention to all the various phases of the disease except the prevention of recurring attacks. We h...

CALCINOSIS TREATED BY PARATHYROIDECTOMY

Excerpt Subcutaneous calcinosis, a disease tending to serious bodily disability, presents a most difficult therapeutic problem. It is usually the sequel to dermatomyositis or some inflammatory dise...

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION (RESULTS IN FIFTY-FOUR CASES)

Excerpt During the last 10 years 54 patients with hypertension have been operated upon at the Lahey Clinic. Sufficient time has elapsed to justify an evaluation of the results to date in all of the...

ANEMIA AS THE CAUSE OF SEVERE CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: REPORT OF A CASE

Excerpt That anemia can be the primary cause of organic heart disease is doubtful; it can, however, give rise to quite abnormal subjective and clinical signs. For such disturbances to arise it is n...

METASTATIC CARCINOMA SIMULATING HYPERPARATHYROIDISM

Excerpt The clinical syndrome of hyperparathyroidism has been established. The literature contains many articles by competent investigators giving the salient features of this disease with the requ...

Successful Therapy of Previously Intractable Gout.

Excerpt Three phases of gout management have now been well delineated—the preuricosuric, the uricosuric, and the anti-uric acid. During the first phase satisfactory control was not possible so ther...