A Simple Guide to Thymus Disorders, Diagnosis, Treatment and Related Conditions

by Kenneth Kee

Overview

This book describes Thymus Disorders, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases

“In the secret places of her thymus gland Louise is making too much of herself.
Her faithful biology depends on regulation but the white T-cells have turned bandit.
They don't obey the rules.
They are swarming into the bloodstream, overturning the quiet order of spleen and intestine.
In the lymph nodes they are swelling with pride.
It used to be their job to keep her body safe from enemies on the outside.
They were her immunity, her certainty against infection.
Now they are the enemies on the inside.
The security forces have rebelled.
Louise is the victim of a coup.

Will you let me crawl inside you, stand guard over you, trap them as they come at you?
Why can't I dam their blind tide that filthies your blood?
Why are there no lock gates on the portal vein?
The inside of your body is innocent, nothing has taught it fear.
Your artery canals trust their cargo, they don't check the shipments in the blood.
You are full to overflowing but the keeper is asleep and there's murder going on inside.
Who comes here?
Let me hold up my lantern.
It's only the blood; red cells carrying oxygen to the heart, thrombocytes making sure of proper clotting.
The white cells, B and T types, just a few of them as always whistling as they go.

The faithful body has made a mistake.
This is no time to stamp the passports and look at the sky.
Coming up behind are hundreds of them.
Hundreds too many, armed to the teeth for a job that doesn't need doing.
Not needed?
With all that weaponry?

Here they come, hurtling through the bloodstream trying to pick a fight.
There's no-one to fight but you Louise.
You're the foreign body now.”

Jeanette Winterson

The thymus is a specialized organ of the immune system.
The immune system's function is to protect the body against infections
The immune system uses the lymphocytes,
It contributes to the development of T lymphocytes

The thymus educates T-lymphocytes
To fight in the body against any parasites
Each T cell attacks a different antigen
They will find their own pathogen

Each T cell attacks a foreign substance
Which it identifies with its receptor evidence
T cells that attack the body’s own proteins
Are eliminated in the thymus after being screened

First T cells undergo Positive Selection
Those are destroyed with no interaction
Second the T cell undergoes Negative Selection
Removed are those T cells with high affinity interaction

-An original poem by Kenneth Kee

The thymus is made up of 2 identical lobes and is sited anatomically in the anterior superior mediastinum, in front of the heart and behind the sternum.

The thymus may spread to the neck region where it is linked to the thyroid gland.

This is because of the development history of the thymus which has its beginning in the brachial entoderm.

The thymus is a transient organ with immune and endocrine function (part of endocrine system that produces hormones).

It extends to its largest size at the time of puberty when it stops to grow, slowly shrinks and almost disappears.

The thymus teaches the T-lymphocytes to fight against invaders of the body.

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Chapter 1 Thymus Disorders
Chapter 2 Myasthenia Gravis
Chapter 3 Thymus Hyperplasia
Chapter 4 Thymus Cancer
Chapter 5 Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease
Chapter 6 DiGeorge Syndrome
Chapter 7 Happiness and the Thymus Thump
Chapter 8 Life and Death of Thymus Gland Cell
Epilogue

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164932473
Publisher:	Kenneth Kee
Publication date:	06/09/2021
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Medical doctor since 1972.

Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.

Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.

Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 70.

However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours in
the afternoon.

He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.

His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.com

This autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.

From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.

He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.

He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.

Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.
For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.
The later books go into more details of medical disorders.

He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.

The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.

He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.

His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.

The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.

He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) starting
with the Apple computer and going to PC.

The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.

The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.

He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.

His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.

The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.

This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.

Dr Kee is the author of:

"A Family Doctor's Tale"

"Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine"

"Case Notes From A Family Doctor"