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W Lukas

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[Serum triiodothyronine and thyroxine levels in children with celiac disease].

The study was aimed at determining relationship between thyroid function and the type and degree of malabsorption. Serum triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) levels were determined in children with celiac disease and the secondary malabsorption. Hundred fifty five children aged between 6 months and 7 years were followed up 3 years. Coeliac disease was diagnosed with classic Interlaken criteria. All children were divided into three groups: group I--57 children aged between 6 months and 3 years with suspected celiac disease; group II--55 children aged between 2.5 and 6 years after gluten-free diet therapy; group III--52 children aged between 3 and 7 years after gluten provocation test. Serum T3 and T4 levels for each group were compared with those in children with normal gut mucous membrane. Blood serum T3 and T4 were assayed with OPIDI kit (manufactured in Swierk). Serum T4 levels were significantly lower in children with mucous membrane atrophy in comparison with dystrophic children and normal gut mucous membrane. Both serum T3 and T4 were significantly lowered in the youngest children upto 12 months of life with mucous membranes atrophy. Serum T3 and T4 concentrations were below the normal values in 4 youngest children. Blood serum T3 and T4 levels did not depend on the morphology of the intestinal villi in children treated with gluten-free diet (some children did not observe the diet and had atrophic lesions to the mucous membrane of the small intestine). Blood serum T3 level was relatively increased in children of group II with mucous membrane regeneration; in comparison with the value determined in the period of active disease.

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[Diagnostic and therapeutic errors in the early period of anorexia nervosa in children].

In the years 1976-1988 in the Department of Paediatrics and Haematology, Silesian Medical Academy in Zabrze 22 children aged 12 to 17 years were diagnosed and treated for mental anorexia. The purpose of the analysis was evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic errors made in primary health care units referring the patients to the Department. The most frequent errors were: misdiagnosis, symptomatic treatment and absence of psychotherapy.

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