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Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 74, Issue 2

2006 June - 20 articles

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Articles (20)

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
674 Views
11 Pages

Chylothorax in Patients with Diffuse Pulmonary Lymphangiomatosis

  • Elżbieta Wiatr,
  • Renata Langfort,
  • Tadeusz Orłowski,
  • Jacek Grudny,
  • Dariusz Gawryluk,
  • Włodzimierz Kupis,
  • Jerzy Usiekniewicz,
  • Karina Oniszh,
  • Barbara Burakowska and
  • Kazimierz Roszkowski

10 June 2006

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...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
678 Views
5 Pages

Thrombocytopenia Probably Heparin-Induced in Women with Tumor of the Heart and Pulmonary Embolism

  • Renata Gralec,
  • Małgorzata Dybowska,
  • Paweł Kuca,
  • Janusz Burakowski and
  • Witold Tomkowski

10 June 2006

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...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1,035 Views
3 Pages

Latent Tetany Masked by Syndroms of Bronchial Asthma and Depressive Syndrome. Case Raport

  • Beata Wajda,
  • Adrianna Drozdowska,
  • Krzysztof Kuziemski,
  • Lucyna Górska,
  • Katarzyna Lewandowska and
  • Ewa Jassem

10 June 2006

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...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
633 Views
3 Pages

Pulmonary Complications in Patient with Ulcerative Colitis, Treated with 5-Aminosalicylic Preparations

  • Piotr Radwan,
  • Tomasz Łupina,
  • Karolina Radwan-Kwiatek and
  • Janusz Milanowski

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
738 Views
5 Pages

VEGF in the Cancer Anorexia-Cachexia Syndrome in Patients with Lung Cancer

  • Bożena Weryńska,
  • Monika Kosacka,
  • Marcin Gołecki and
  • Renata Jankowska

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
758 Views
6 Pages

Increased Levels of RANTES in Induced Sputum of Chronic Asthma but Not in Seasonal Grass Pollen-Induced Rhinitis

  • Adam Barczyk,
  • Ewa Sozańska,
  • Malgorzata Farnik,
  • Iwona Stępniak-Ziółkiewicz,
  • Joanna Nizio-Mąsior and
  • Władysław Pierzchała

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
715 Views
6 Pages

Invasive Aspergillosis (IA) In Patients Treated in the Institute of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases in the Years 1993–2005—Diagnostic Problems

  • Paweł Ramiszewski,
  • Dariusz Gawryluk,
  • Barbara Podsiadło,
  • Elżbieta Wiatr,
  • Janusz Szopiński,
  • Ewa Rowińska-Zakrzewska,
  • Iwona Bestry,
  • Renata Langfort and
  • Kazimierz Roszkowski-Śliż

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
664 Views
6 Pages

Humoral Immune Response against Mycobacterial Antigens in Patients with Tuberculosis and Mycobacterial Infections Other than Tuberculosis

  • Urszula Demkow,
  • Beata Białas-Chromiec,
  • Małgorzata Filewska,
  • Tadeusz Zielonka,
  • Dorota Michałowska-Mitczuk,
  • Jan Kuś,
  • Beata Broniarek-Samson,
  • Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć,
  • Zofia Zwolska and
  • Ewa Rowińska-Zakrzewska

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
823 Views
4 Pages

The Epidemiology of Tuberculosis of the Respiratory Tract in TH Homeless in Poznań

  • Lidia Karpińska-Jazdon,
  • Jerzy Gałęcki and
  • Anna Ruszczcak

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
709 Views
6 Pages

Safety of Venom Immunotherapy in Patients Pretreated with Antihistamines—A Retrospective Study

  • Damian Tworek,
  • Małgorzata Bocheńska-Marciniak,
  • Maciej Kupczyk,
  • Izabela Kupryś-Lipińska and
  • Piotr Kuna

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
666 Views
7 Pages

Hyperuricaemia in Females with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

  • Robert Pływaczewski,
  • Michał Bednarek,
  • Luiza Jonczak,
  • Dorora Górecka and
  • Paweł Śliwiński

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
736 Views
8 Pages

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
827 Views
8 Pages

Analysis of the Treatment (Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Surgery) in IIb and IIIa Stages of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

  • Beata Ptaszek,
  • Mariusz Chabowski,
  • Elżbieta Wiatr,
  • Tadeusz M. Orłowski,
  • Renata Langfort,
  • Iwona Bestry and
  • Kazimierz Roszkowski-Śliż

10 June 2006

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
659 Views
7 Pages

Epidemiological Situation Concerning Lung Cancer in Wielkopolska in 1975–2002

  • Rodryg Ramlau,
  • Joanna Didkowska,
  • Urszula Wojciechowska,
  • Wojciech Tarkowski and
  • Wojciech Dyszkiewicz

10 June 2006

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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
891 Views
5 Pages

The Frequency of Allergy in Lung Cancer Patients

  • Katarzyna Tolak,
  • Andrzej Omernik,
  • Oksana Żdan,
  • Diana Ragus,
  • Joanna Domagała-Kulawik,
  • Piotr Rudziński and
  • Ryszard Chazan

10 June 2006

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...

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