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Severe status asthmaticus with atelectasis of the entire pulmonary lobe
The author presents a female patient with severe status asthmaticus. He presents pathogenesis, pathophysiology and potential complications of the disease and stresses the importance of clinical evaluation of the patient…
Read more ›Different techniques for removing warts
The author describes different methods employed in the treatment of warts, classifying them by their therapeutic value and frequency of use. They include the use of keratolytic agents, surgical excision,…
Read more ›Eating disorders
Modern medicine has been paying increasing attention to eating disorders. The official classification of the diseases deals only with those clinical entities which are related to serious mental and physical…
Read more ›Valgus osteotomy for treatment of congenital coxa vara – a biomechanical analysis
In congenital coxa vara, the femoral neck-shaft angle is extremely small. Therefore valgus osteotomy is usually performed in order to increase the neck-shaft angle, and thus reduce stress in the…
Read more ›Intraabdominal adhesions
The clinical relevance and theories on intraabdominal adhesion formation are presented. Pathogenesis and some basic attitudes towards intraabdominal adhesion prevention are described. Intraabdominal adhesion prevention by surface active materials and…
Read more ›Tumor marker CA 125 in gynecology
The tumor marker CA 125 was detected in the sera of patients with epithelial ovarian cancer using high levels of labeled monoclonal antibodies. The paper lists the tissues in which…
Read more ›Atrial natriuretic peptide
In spite of long term expectations of the discovery of heart natriuretic substance only nine years ago the atrial natriuretic peptide was discovered. Some essential data about structure, synthesis, secretion…
Read more ›The role of oxygen free radicals in some physiological and pathological processes
Oxygen free radicals play an important role in many processes: they are involved in various phases of the inflammatory process and therefore take part in the defence of the organism.…
Read more ›Clinical entities in the postinfraction period
Clinical entities that most commonly complicate the early postinfraction course and have adverse effects on prognosis include myocardial ischemia, heart failure and arrhythmias. The objective of the study was to…
Read more ›The value of some stress tests in predicting hypertension
We studied 62 young healthy volunteers, mostly students, with the mean age of 23,7 years. They were devided into a group with positive family history of hypertension (group A, N=27)…
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