Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 74, Issue 2

Wyniki badan ostatnich kilkunastu lat dostarcza­jll wielu danych na temat istotnej roli eozynofila w patogenezie licznych chorob o podlozu zapalnym [...]

Bazofile i mastocyty Sil komorkami efektorowymi reakcji zaleznej od IgE, nazywana takze reakcja typu I wg [...]

The occurence of chylothorax is uncommon and usually is caused by trauma or neoplastic process of the mediastinum. Primary lymphatic lesions of the lungs are extremly rare. One of them is lymphangiomatosis—diffuse lesions characterized primarily by a...

43 years old women with tumor of the right ventricle was admitted to ICU due to pulmonary embolism and suspicion for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. Thrombocytopenia was successfully treated with Arixtra and the patient was qualified for the cardio...

Tetany, which occurs in young women, poses common diagnostic problem. Two types of tetany are distinguished: one which is characterized by hypocalcemia and which rarely occurs (in person after strumectomy in the course of post-operational hypoparathy...

Pulmonary complications in patients with ulcerative colitis treated with 5-aminosalicylic acid are infrequent adverse events. The authors present a 35-year-old man, talcing sulfasalazine and mesalazine in whom pulmonary abnormalities resembling tuber...

Bakterie z rodzaju Acinetobacter naleza do grupy Gram-ujemnych paleczek niefermentujacych, do ktorych zalicza sie rowniez patogeny takie jak Pseu­domonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophi­lia i Burkholderia cepacia [...]

Plwocina jest wydzielincl blony sluzowej drog od­dechowych [...]

Cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome( CACS) occurs in 30–80% of patients with cancer. CACS is con­nected with poor prognosis and higher risk of treatment complications. CACS belongs to the common cause of death in cancer patients. Main role in the devel...

Backgroud: Allergic rhinitis is one of risk factors for development of allergic asthma. Meth­ods: 9 patients with asthma, 16 patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) due to grass or rye pollen sensiti­zation and 17 healthy control subjects were...

The aim of this study was to present the diagnostic problems in pts treated for invasive aspergillosis (IA) in the Illrd Clinic of the Institute of Tuberculosis in the years 1993–2005. The material consisted of clinical documentation of 18 pts. 15 o...

The aim of the study was to compare humoral immune response against various mycobacterial anti­gens in TB and MOTT vs. healthy control group. 350 serum samples from TB patients, 20 samples from MOTT pa­tients and 58 samples from healthy donors were e...

The Department of Health and Social Care of the Municipal Council in Poznan initiated a programme of prophylaxis against tuberculosis in the homeless. The study involves those homeless people who are registered in Poznan-based homeless shelters and t...

Imrnunotherapy is the only effective method of treatment of allergy to Hymenoptera venom. Pretreat­ment with antihistamines diminishes the incidence of adverse reactions (AR) such as large local and mild systemic reactions but it is suggested that it...

The aim of our study was to assess serum uric acid (UA) in a large group of females with OSA before treatment (normal UA value is from 2.4 to 5.7 mg/dL). We studied 105 consecutive females (73.3% without es­trogen activity), mean age 58.5 ± 9.9 years...

In the case of influenza disease there is no possible to make unquestionable diagnosis only on the basis of clinical picture. Therefore, virological laboratory diagnostics is important, especially in hospitalized patients and those who highly risk po...

The aims: (1) comparison ofNSCLC stages according to bronchoscopic and radiological findings with pathological outcome (mediastinoscopy), (2) efficacy of the neoadjuvant ChT by means of nodal involvement and primary tumour (downstaging), (3) influenc...

Lung cancer is the main cause of cancer deaths around the world. At 12% of all cancer incidents, lung cancer is the most frequent single cause of death, of both males and females. In 2002 among male population in Po­land, lung cancer was the second,...

Przewlekla obturacyjna choroba pruc (POChP) jest chorobct na która w ostatnich latach zawrócono wieksza uwage [...]

Lung cancer is the most common malignancy in the world and frequency of allergic diseases increases especially in high-developed countries. In the literature there have been published articles about association be­tween lung cancer and allergic disea...