Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 74, Issue 1

We describe a case of two simultaneous malignancies–anaplastic gastric carcinoma with pleural metastases and left breast carcinoma. These malignancies were recognized in 78–year old woman after right mastectomy performed 30 years ago. Additionaly, du...

Aim: to evaluate usefulness of serum homocysteine concentration in assessing the risk of atherosclerosis in patients with OSAS. Materials and methods: 47 patients (mean age 50.6 ± 10.3 years, mean BMI 31.52 ± 6.04 kg/m2), with OSAS confirmed by polis...

The author proposes an extension of terminology of COPD by introducing to certain situations the adjectives “guiltless” (for patient who never smoked) , “asthma like” (for patients with symptoms with reversible bronchoconstriction and eosinophilia) a...

47-year-old women was admitted to the clinic for diagnosis of an incidentally X-ray detected enlargement of the medistinum shadow. In the past, the patient had been operated for lymphangioma of the right forearm. Chest computer tomography (CT) showed...

Tuberculous lymphadenitis is one of the most common extrapulmonary manifestations of tuberculosis. The most common lymph nodes involved are in the cervical region. Lymphadenitis due to M. tuberculosis generally presents with enlarging neck lymph node...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of the quantitative analysis of mycolic acids by HPLC technique in drug susceptibility testing of the M. tuberculosis isolates to the first-line antituberculous drugs: isoniazid and rifampicin. Drug s...

The polymorphism of the short fragment of the heat shock protein 65 encoding gene was evaluated by the PCR–RFLP technique described by Telenti and further developed by Devallois for identification of mycobac-terial species in routine laboratory work....

Macrophages represent the most predominant immune effector cells in the alveolar spaces and conducting airways and are known to express activated phenotype. The study was aimed at assessing the differences in cellular profile and the expression of se...

Selective phosphodiesterases (PDE) inhibitors are the new group of antiasthmatic drugs, which integrate antiinflammatory activity with bronchoconstriction counteraction. Selective inhibitors of phosphodiesterase type 4 are used as alternative or assi...

The carbon monoxide diffusion capacity (DLCO) is among others dependent of the hemoglobin value. The result of DLCO test in patients with anemia change when we adjust DLCO for hemoglobin (Hb) concentration. The aim of the study was to estimate if the...