title: [The clinical significance of the change of blood testosterone in burned patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the patterns and significance of the change in blood testosterone in burned patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  The changes of blood testosterone and luteinizing hormone (LH) were dynamically monitored in 21 male patients with moderate burn injury.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The blood testosterone levels in this group decreased persistently after burn, and the decrement degree was related to the burn severity. But LH exhibited no regular change and its change exerted no effects on the blood testosterone levels.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Decrease in blood testosterone in burned patients was related to gonadal injury, which caused the shortage and insufficiency of anabolic hormone and also of protein synthesis. The correction of the shortage of testosterone might be beneficial to protein synthesis and to the restoration of positive nitrogen equilibrium in burned patients.
authors.affiliation: Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat -- Sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou 510630, China.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002056:Burns / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013739:Testosterone / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D013739:Testosterone; D007986:Luteinizing Hormone