副腎皮質機能と肺結核症の経過予後との関連に関する研究

抄録

In connection with some TB cases who were attacked by the disease and have been medically treated all under the simillar environments and conditions, I conducted a series of research into any possible connection to be traced between their different development and adrenocortical function thereby hoping to check any possibility of obtaining a clue to the problem of human constitution serving as one factor in question. My observations of the adrenocortical function, which were carried out with the minimal pulmonary TB cases with the same status at the time of this study, were effected for the two opposing groups of the cases respectively from the following view points :
1) Any aggravation in the course of chemotherapy after their reaching TP in the past.
2) Degree of improvement of their X-ray observations after the same chemotherapy.
3) Degree of their complaints.
The above comparative study of the function brought about the following results :
The group of cases who suffered a relapse of TB in the course chemotherapy in the past, the group of those who showed no or slight in provement of X-ray observations after chemotherapy and also the group with a greater number of complainte showed a greater decline of adrenocortical function than recorded by their respective opposings : groups of cases who had not a relapse of TB in the past, of those who showed a remarkable improvement of X-ray observations, and of those with a smaller number of complaints. From these results it is to be inferred that the degree of the adrenocortical function has some bearing upon the development, especially a relapse or aggravation of TB cases.