{"title":"[Lymphocytes in sputum].","authors":"I Pongrac, M Roglić","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors analysed 116 hospitalized patients who, in their routine cytologic examination of the sputum, had also a cytomorphologic finding of lymphocytes. The greatest majority of these patients, 63 of them or 54.3% suffered from malignant neoplasm. Out of these 63 patients, 53 of them or 45.7% suffered from primary bronchial carcinoma, whereas 10 patients or 8.6% had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, metastatic lung cancer of extrathoracic primary localization, Hodgkin's lymphoma, while two patients were supposed to have lung neoplasm. Our study also revealed that 14 patients (out of 116 hospitalized patients) or 12.0% suffered from broncho-pleuropneumonia, 13 or 11.2% from an active pulmonary tuberculosis, 7 or 6.0% from a chronic obstructive bronchitis, 5.1% from sarcoidosis, 3.4% from post tuberculosis pulmonary changes while 2.5% of the patients were found to have a pleural empyema. One case of bronchial asthma, tuberculous pleurisy, bronchiectasis, hamartoma, hemoptysis and a pulmonary infarction were found as well. Due to their own experience the authors conclude that the lymphocytes in the sputum were found to be the most frequent in patients suffering from primary bronchial carcinoma, broncho-pleuropneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis but that they could also be found in many others pathologic changes of pulmonary parenchyma.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"150-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13778090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Changes in etiologic factors, anatomic distribution and age in children with bronchiectasis].","authors":"I Milović, D Oluić","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Changing aetiology, anatomic distribution and age of 62 children with bronchiectasis undergoing lobectomy between 1979 and 1987, were analysed. Postpneumonic bronchiectases were found in about 50% of cases during several years of observed 9-years' period. There was significant increase of bronchiectasis due to the documented congenital malformations of the lungs according to the exact diagnosis of intrapulmonary congenital lesions (congenital cystic disease of the lungs, bronchial and vascular abnormalities). Bronchiectases have been diagnosed and surgically treated in very young children lately; mean age at the time of surgery decreased from 7.1 years in 1979. to 5.2 years in 1987.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"153-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13778091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Ambulatory treatment of asthma in adults].","authors":"J Furlan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the introduction the approach to the treatment of asthma has been classified into preventive measures and drug therapy. By both methods especially by drugs the inflammation in the airways should be decreased. According to the modern concepts of pathogenesis of asthma the bronchial hyperresponsiveness might be reduced together with the causes of the symptoms of asthma. For the preventive treatment of all but mild forms of asthma in most asthmatics the therapy of three parallel ways should be applied: bronchodilators in aerosol and/or perorally, anti-allergic inflammatory drugs as well as corticosteroids in aerosol only in exceptional cases per os. According to the clinical effect and lung function (measurement of PEF at home) the drugs and doses are changed. In acute aggravation of asthma when bronchodilators are not sufficient the corticosteroids should be added parenterally in high doses with special attention on beta agonists in inhalation of increased doses after the corticosteroids had been applied.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"233-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13840333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Henoch-Schoenlein purpura with pulmonary infiltration].","authors":"S Bosković, T Susković","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Purpura Henoch-Schönlein (PHS) was described in 55-year old man. The damages of skin, joints, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and lung were found. The spreading of the PHS into the lungs with the development of transitory respiratory failure was found out on X-ray finding (bilateral pleural effusions and interstitial infiltrations), functional testing (differential diffusing capacity of alveolar membrane reduced to 31% of normal) and with measurement of blood gases (hypoxemia with PaO2 43.8 mmHg respectively 5.7 kPa). The impairment of lung function is rarely described since according to the data from the literature the lungs are damaged only in 6.5% of patients with PHS. Due to the corticosteroid therapy all clinical and laboratory findings were significantly improved.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"173-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13778096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Measurement of pulmonary transfer factor using the CO rebreathing method of gas mixtures].","authors":"D Zimic, M Bizjak, B Stangl","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The measurement of transfer factor of the lung with CO rebreathing method (TLcoRB) is presented by slightly modified method of Clark et al. The measurements were performed in 32 healthy subjects and in 24 patients with restrictive or obstructive ventilatory defect and compared with the values of TLcoSB. TLcoRB was in all examined persons cca 30% lower than TLcoSB. Contrary to that Kco in healthy subjects was the same in both methods while the values of KcoRB in patients were slightly lower than KcoSB. It is concluded that measurement of TLco rebreathing method is suitable for routine use. The measurement of TLcoRB may be performed also in patients with severely decreased ventilatory capacity and even at patient's bed. In specialised laboratories for lung function test TLcoRB should be used as parallel method in routine work.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"199-204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13777288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Risks to health in the process of producing cellulose].","authors":"S Janković, J Slipcević, M Dekić-Cado","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Technology of the production of cellulose in our conditions has much harmful effects on health of the people working in this industry. A lot has been done on the prevention of the exposed persons but the longterm exposition of smaller concentrations to any of the harmful products leaves the irreversible effects on the health. Fifty-two exposed workers were studied and the same number in the control group. The changes are most frequently of neuropsychological kind but also of respiratory in much higher percent that has been considered. In addition to the clinical examination of several specialties the cytological examination of sputum has also been included together with spirometry and gas analysis. Half of the subjects examined were smokers.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"162-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13778093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Hypernephroma cells in pleural effusions].","authors":"I Pongrac, M Roglić, B Oresković","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rare case of finding of hypernephroma cells in pleural effusion as well as their cytomorphological picture are presented in this paper. Cytomorphologically, the hypernephroma cells in pleural effusion occurred in clusters from three, four to about twenty of cells and rarely appeared singly. The cytoplasm of the cells appeared to be abundant, not sharply bordered and varied in colour from a light-grey to a slight pink-grey while within the cytoplasm, the small pale vacuoles were visible. The nuclei of the cells were regularly round-to-oval shape with a slight anisonucleosis and contained one, rarely two, a good visible blue nucleoli. Of other cells, erythrocytes were also present together with the cells of mesothelial serosa and lymphocytes. Cytomorphologically, the hypernephroma cells in pleural effusion have the same characteristics as have the hypernephroma cells in metastases of lymph nodes in mediastinum or in metastatic nodes of the lung.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"178-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13778097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Ultrasound in the diagnosis of pulmonary and pleural diseases].","authors":"M Opacić, R Sarac, J Mose, R Mihelcić Dabo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ultrasound as a method in evaluation of pleural diseases, peripheral pulmonary infiltrates and tumors has already been accepted throughout the world. However we haven't yet been applying it widely. In this work the possibilities of ultrasound as a method in pleural and lung diseases diagnostics have been described, together with the typical findings and examination technique. Indications of thoracic ultrasound which along with unavoidable X-ray examinations represent a new increase of quality in the diagnostics of pleural and lung diseases are specified.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"228-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13840327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Hemoptysis with a normal radiograph of the thoracic organs].","authors":"M Kosnik, Z Remskar, F Plevnik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case of a patient is presented who had hemoptysis and normal chest roentgenogram. In diagnostic procedure active pulmonary tuberculosis was found to be the cause of hemoptysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"184-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13777285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Smoking habits in physicians and its sequelae. Preliminary results of a study of 3595 physicians in Slovenia over a 15-year period (1972-1986)].","authors":"B Fortic","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Results of the inquiry among Slovene physicians regarding their smoking habits and accompanying symptoms are presented. At the same time some estimations are given concerning the differences in degree and specificity of mortality among physicians-smokers and physicians-non-smokers on the base of analysis of physicians died during the period from 1972 to 1986. Spreading of smoking among physicians is still a matter of great concern as there are as much as 30% of male doctors and 20% of female doctors who smoke regularly. Morbidity and mortality are among physicians-smokers significantly higher than among physicians non-smokers. Among the causes of death, cancer of the lung, myocardial infarction, digestive and respiratory diseases are significantly more frequent.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"41 3-4","pages":"137-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13778160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}