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B Vidaković

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PubMed1989

[Clinical and immunologic aspects of chlamydial infections in infertile women].

UNLABELLED: Chlamydia Trachomatis (CT) infection of the genital tract ranges from clinically severe to the silent subclinical forms of pelvic inflammatory diseases which can result in fallopian tubes obstruction and subsequent infertility. Our investigations: The serum antichlamydial antibodies of 30 infertile patients and the cultures of Chlamydia Trachomatis from specimens of endometrial biopsies were determined as well as HSG and laparoscopic examinations. METHODOLOGY: The evaluation of serum antichlamydial antibodies were measured by ELISA test. The endometrial specimens for culture of Chlamydia Trachomatis were collected transcervically from the uterine cavity. The statistical analyses were calculated on the basis of Student t test. RESULTS: Immunological determinations showed the presence of antichlamydial antibodies in 43.6%. The endometrial cultures yielded growth of CT (36.6%) and histological signs of chlamydial endometritis were also discovered. This study pointed to the positive correlation between the results of endometrial biopsies (cultures), immunological (serological) investigations and clinical examinations showing that the chlamydial infection reached the Fallopian tubes from the endometrium which could result in infertility.

Chlamydia Infections↗
PubMed1976

[Our experiences in the treatment of acute leukemias].

This paper deals with observations concerning treatment of acute leukemia in the Department of haematology of The Clinical hospital of Belgrade during the period from 1970 to 1975, and with results of the treatment itself. During the last five years, 27 patients with different types of acute leukemia were treated. The type of acute leukemia was determined using cytological criteria of Levy and Lortholary and cytochemical criteria as described by Hayhoe. One thrid of the patients died during the first days of hospitalisation, before any effect of cytostatic treatment could be evaluated. The cause of death in those patients was septic shock, intracranial haemorrhage or cardiovascular colapsus; initial signs of those complications of acute leukemia were allready present before diagnosis. Those data point to the fact that diagnosis of acute leukemia is often made too late, when irreversible ocmplications of the disease are allready established. Patients over sixty, often "fragile" to aggresive cytostatic therapy, may enter complete and relatively long lasting remission with induction therapy cosisting of 6-mercaptopurine and methotrexate only. Allthough the number of cases was rather limited, the authors had rather disappointing results with the 06-LA-66 protocole in adult lymphoblastic leukemia. The first with COAP treatment protocole seem encouraging. Adequate cytostatic therapy was in several cases impossible, duo to the lack of adequate substitution therapy; such inadequate cytostatic therapy resulted in partial remissions with a rather poor quality survival. A beeter cooperation is needed between hospital centers and institutions which provide matherial for the substitution theapy.

Acute Disease↗
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[Incidence of lymphoma cells in the bone marrow and peripheral blood in patients with non-Hodgkin's type lymphoma].

The appearance of lymphomatous cells in the bone marrow and peripheral blood in 120 patients with Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs), was investigated. The presence of lymphomatous cells in the bone marrow was found in 56.6% ob patients and in the peripheral blood in 23.3% of individuals. Lymphomatous site in the bone marrow was proportionally frequent in the group of patients with the high grade aggressive NHLs in comparison to the low grade group. The finding of the peripheral blood occupation was reversible However no significant statistical difference was found. The results also suggest that lymphomatous invasion of the bone marrow does not obligatory predict the invasion of the peripheral blood. Reverse correlation between the frequent bone marrow and peripheral blood occupation by lymphomatous cells and the mean survival time which was significantly shorter in the patients who exhibited the invasion of any kind, was also found. This means that lymphomatous invasion of the bone marrow and peripheral blood might be a potentially useful parameter of the clinical aggressiveness and the course of the disease.

Bone Marrow↗