[Several endocrine aspects of duodenal stasis in the process of therapeutic gymnastics].

The levels of TTH, T3, T4 and testosterone were studied in 65 female patients suffering from chronic duodenitis with concomitant hypertensive duodenal stasis, stages I and II. A significant increase in the content of the hormones under study was revealed. Subclinical hyperthyroidism was determined by the formation of the irritative autonomic (sympathicotonic) syndrome as a result of irritation of the sympathetic nerve fibers of the celiac plexus due to the presence of inflammation at the duodenojejunal junction. This condition was attended by the predominance of catabolic processes (thyroid hormones) and a compensatory rise of the secretion of the hormones from the anabolic group (testosterone). The use of a special program of exercises led to the lessening of the clinicofunctional symptoms of disease with the normalization of hormonal homeostasis.