THE CLINICAL EFFECTS OF ACTH AND CORTISONE IN CASE OF SEVERE BILATERAL NEPHROPHTHISIS

Abstract

Some experts in the field of tuberculosis have expressed that prolonged use of ACTH and Cortisone may cause a deleterious reaction in the bodies of tuberculous patients.
However, the authors recently experienced that in case of bilateral renal uberculosis, use of these hormones proved satisfactory therapeutic effect, which was confirmed by improvement in the blood chemistories, as well as the symptom masking effect. We have come to consider that the use of ACTH and Cortisone may be recommended justifiably upon patients in adrenal insufficiency even in the presence of tuberculosis.