Therapeutic methods in endocrinology. General considerations
Dumitrache, C.
Romanian Journal of Endocrinology 30(1-2): 3-19
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 1221-356X PMID: 1305518 Document Number: 389704
The integrative character of the endocrine system and its regulation ways generate and motivate the specificity of endocrine therapy. The latter tries, by its methods and means, to restore hormonal homeostasis, to imitate the biologic rhythms of secretion, to respond to the stress needs, in fact it ensures the dynamics of the normal integration of an individual in the daily life with all its changes. This requirement is ensured by the methods of stimulation and suppression, hormonal substitution or depression of hormone bio-synthesis, blockade of enzymatic activation or desensitivation of the receptors to the hormonal message, etc. The association of the therapeutic means and methods has the purpose of bringing relief and the expectancy of a decent, controlled survival in inevitable iatrogeny. Endocrine therapy also ensures a normal growth and development, an acceptable IQ, a reasonable degree of sexualization, responds to the most important demand of life: perpetuation of the species. The range of endocrine therapy is perhaps the widest in medicine, starting with the disease and ending with the esthetic aspects of the individual. A good knowledge of the methods, means and especially their dynamics and specificity gives the endocrinologist the pragmatic outlook measured only by its efficiency.