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M Boss

Publications and source records attributed to M Boss.

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PubMed1978

Response to thyrotrophin-releasing hormone in atrial dysrhythmias.

Seventy-eight clinically euthyroid patients with atrial dysrhythmias, either established or paroxysmal, and sixty-three patients in sinus rhythm with coronary disease were screened for hyperthyroidism using thyroid function tests including the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) response to thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH). All had normal levels of serum thyroxine (T4) apart from three with dysrhythmias who were found to have hyperthyroidism. Twenty per cent of patients with atrial dysrhythmias and 10% of those in sinus rhythm had exaggerated TSH response to TRH. Thirty-six per cent of patients with an exaggerated response of TSH to TRH had significant titres of thyroid auto-antibodies compared with 15% with positive antibodies in those with normal TSH response to TRH. Auto-immune thyroid disease may be more closely related to heart disease than has previously been recognized. Rapid atrial dysrhythmias may occur in the presence of a normal serum thyroxine, high levels of TSH and positive thyroid antibodies.

Adult↗
PubMed1977

Triple radioisotope technique in etiologic evaluation of space-occupying lesions of the liver.

The findings from 43 patients with histologically proven focal liver disease examined by triple isotope tracer study are presented. The method consisted in a three step technique, the first step being an isotope scan after injection of 99mTc-sulfur colloid and 131I rose bengal. As a second step dynamic hepatic scintiangiography was carried out with 99mTc human serum albumin in order to assess the vascularity of a lesion detected on the initial scan. Thirdly, the patient was administered 67Ga to evaluate further the pathologic process. According to our results this triple radioisotope technique provides the clinician with valuable information on the possible etiology of focal liver disease.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1975

[The being ill of the schizophrenic approached from existential analysis].

Schizophrenia is one of the most pervading and obscure mental deseases. No scientific explanation--either somatogenic or psychogenetic--has attained, so far, a comprehensive grasp of schizophrenic ways of experiencing the world. Not that the valuable research made in many branches of Psychiatry is to be belittled because of being parcial or single-oriented: it is necessary a completely different approach--from a phenomenological standpoint-- provided by Daseinanalyse, to encompass the richess and complexity of schizophrenic experience. In that view, "being-ill" is, for the schizophrenic, a basic impairment of the capacity of "being-open-to" the human environment, and a correlative lack of "feeling-of-the-self", an incapability to be what one really is. The consequence is a loss of freedom, a basic difficulty to face the world and to reach its meaning together with the meaning of one's own life. Three cases are discussed, in which the patients are overwhelmed by other's actions and thoughts, and cannot tell apart what pertains really to their own inner world. They are even absorbed by inanimate elements, or by ordinary objects of everyday life. Everything is a threat to their nonexisting beings. Once such a grasp of the complexities of schizophrenic "way-of-being-in-the-world" is attained, it is possible to work towards the development of the patient's own self, to help to expand and strenghthen the individual inner "roots" in order to gain a higher level of individual entity that enables the patient to face the world without the risks and perils of being engulfed in its maelstroms.

Existentialism↗