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Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Volume 77, Issue 4

2009 June - 14 articles

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Articles (14)

  • Review
  • Open Access
720 Views
3 Pages

Familial Predisposition to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

  • Pneumonologia i Alergologia Polska Editorial Office

26 June 2009

The role of cigarette smoking in development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is well known, however only in about 20% of smokers clinical disease was diagnosed. It points to additional factors which influence the sensitivity to tobacc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
742 Views
6 Pages

Mikroangiopatia płucna w przebiegu cukrzycy

  • Krzysztof Kuziemski,
  • Lucyna Górska,
  • Ewa Jassem and
  • Aleksandra Madej-Dmochowska

26 June 2009

Cukrzyca jest schorzeniem metabolicznym, charakteryzującym się przewlekłą hiperglikemią oraz nieprawidłową przemianą węglowodanów, białek i tłuszczów. To zaburzenie metabolizmu wynika z upośledzonego wydzielania insuliny, niewłaściwego oddziaływania...

  • Review
  • Open Access
628 Views
7 Pages

Najczęstsze zakażenia przeszczepionych płuc

  • Anna Korzeniewska,
  • Tomasz Dyła,
  • Monika Kosacka and
  • Renata Jankowska

26 June 2009

Jednym z najczęstszych powikłań po przeszczepieniu płuc jest ich zakażenie. Wśród patogenów wywołujących infekcje znajdują się drobnoustroje oportunistyczne oraz pochodzące ze środowiska szpitalnego, przy czym najczęściej izolowane są Pseudomonas aer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
723 Views
6 Pages

Accuracy of Spirometry Performed by General Practitioners and Pneumonologists in the Pomeranian Region in the ‘COPD Prevention’ NHF Programme

  • Krzysztof Kuziemski,
  • Wojciech Słomiński,
  • Krzysztof Specjalski,
  • Ewa Jassem,
  • Renata Kalicka and
  • Jan Marek Słomiński

26 June 2009

Introduction: Spirometry is the key test in diagnosing and severity assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Despite the simplicity of the test, the discrepancy between results obtained by general practitioners and specialists is n...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
682 Views
5 Pages

Tubercular Inflammation of Cervical Lymph Nodes with a Colliquative Tuberculosis Focus—A Case Study

  • Witold Owczarek,
  • Tomasz Targowski,
  • Katarzyna Łebkowska and
  • Elwira Paluchowska

26 June 2009

Cutaneous tuberculosis is a specific form of tuberculosis, characteristic of a differentiated clinical picture and resulting from either endo- or exogenous way of infection, immunological mechanisms and unfavourable conditions for mycobacterium devel...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
657 Views
6 Pages

Peritoneal Tuberculosis Mimicking Ovarian Cancer—Diagnostic Difficulties. A Report of Two Cases

  • Jacek Zamłyński,
  • Anita Olejek,
  • Ewa Oleś,
  • Katarzyna Stęplewska,
  • Andrzej Krzywiecki,
  • Grażyna Myrcik,
  • Piotr Bodzek,
  • Marta Paliga-Żytniewska and
  • Alicja Gajewska

26 June 2009

Tuberculosis, and particularly its extrapulmonary location, still causes diagnostic difficulties. In 2007, 7.3% of newly registered cases of tuberculosis in Poland were located extrapulmonarily. Peritoneal tuberculosis is often misdiagnosed as ovaria...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,698 Views
7 Pages

26 June 2009

W pracy przedstawiono aktualną wiedzę dotyczącą mechanizmów działania glikokortykosteroidów (GK). Zgodnie z klasycznym modelem działania, określanym jako genomowy, GK wpływają (bezpośrednio lub pośrednio) na transkrypcję i translację genów kodujących...

  • Article
  • Open Access
784 Views
5 Pages

Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Needle Aspiration in Lung Cancer

  • Artur Szlubowski,
  • Marcin Zieliński,
  • Joanna Figura,
  • Jolanta Hauer,
  • Witold Sośnicki,
  • Juliusz Pankowski,
  • Anna Obrochta and
  • Magdalena Jakubiak

26 June 2009

Introduction: The aim of the study was to assess the diagnostic yield of transoesophageal endoscopic ultrasound-guided needle aspiration (EUS-NA) in lung cancer (LC). Material and methods: Real time EUS-NA was performed under local anaesthesia and se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
940 Views
7 Pages

The Effects of Frequent Nurse Visits on Patient’s Compliance with Long-Term Oxygen Therapy (LTOT). A 14-Month Follow-Up

  • Jacek Nasiłowski,
  • Tadeusz Przybyłowski,
  • Joanna Klimiuk,
  • Artur Leśkow,
  • Katarzyna Orska and
  • Ryszarda Chazan

26 June 2009

Introduction: Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) is the only treatment that improves prognosis in patients with chronic respiratory failure in the course of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This effect depends on the duration of oxygen use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
777 Views
7 Pages

Medical Students’ Attitudes towards Tobacco Smoking at the First and Sixth Year of Their Studies 2002–2008

  • Alicja Siemińska,
  • Joanna M. Jassem-Bobowicz,
  • Maja Uherek,
  • Tomasz Wilanowski,
  • Radosław Nowak and
  • Ewa Jassem

26 June 2009

Introduction: The prevalence of smoking among medical students indicates that studying medicine is an insufficient protection from tobacco use. The aim of the study was an analysis of medical students’ attitudes towards smoking at the first and sixth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
752 Views
8 Pages

26 June 2009

Introduction: Based on the normal values for inflammatory cell counts in induced sputum produced by healthy individuals living in the region of Silesia, Poland, we assessed the usefulness of cytological examination of induced sputum in the diagnostic...

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