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D Kostadinov

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PubMed2002

[Major respiratory tract traumas].

Between 1988 and 2000 a total of 33 patients with traumatic tracheobronchial lesions were diagnosed and treated. The trauma was penetrating in 7 (stab and gun-shot), blunt in 10 (car accidents, compression and falling from heights) and iatrogenic in 16 of them (postintubational--15, after foreign body extraction--1). The main clinical and radiological features were subcutaneous emphysema, hemoptysis, respiratory insufficiency, pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax. The diagnosis was confirmed in all patients by early fiberoptic bronchoscopy. "Watch and see" tactics with massive antibiotics therapy was followed in 4 (12%) patients. A surgical treatment was carried out in 29 (88%) patients as follows: simple repair--19 (58%), left pneumonectomy--2 (6%), tracheal resection and anastomosis "end to end"--2 (6%), tracheostomy--1 (3%), thoracocenthesis and drainage--3 (9%) and cervical mediastinotomy--2 (6%). The operative mortality was 9%. The cause of death in these 3 patients were associated brain and spinal cord injuries. In the rest of patients the early and long-term postoperative results were considered very good.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

Photodynamic therapy in lung and gastrointestinal cancers.

Twelve central bronchial carcinoma patients and two gastrointestinal (GI) tract (oesophageal and colonic) early-stage cancer patients were treated with photodynamic therapy (PDT). Haematoporphyrin (HP/5, Jacopo Monico, Italy) at a dose of 5 mg kg-1 body weight was used as photosensitizer. Laser light at 628.2-630 nm generated by two different laser systems (gold vapour laser (I.P. Optics, Sofia, Bulgaria) in lung cancer cases and an argon dye laser system (Spectra Physics, Mountain View, U.S.A.) in GI tract cancers) was used. Lung cancers were irradiated 48 h after drug administration and GI tract cancers were irradiated 72 h after infusion of the photosensitizer. Both tumour sites were treated with a total energy dose in the range 350-600 J cm-2. Efficiency of PDT in lung cancer was evaluated by X-rays and endoscopic and functional respiratory tests for bronchial de-obstruction. Complete remission after PDT of GI tract cancers was considered to be tumour eradication (histologically and cytologically proved) and a tumour-free interval of at least 12 months.

Antineoplastic Agents↗
PubMed1985

[The somatotype and fatty body weight of medical students].

The somatotype was determined of 247 healthy students of medicine, male Bulgarians, average age 22, according to the method of Heath and Carter. More than half of the examined subjects (55,9%) was established to belong to the group of mesomorphy with a predomination of the subgroup of endomorphic mesomorphy. The other morphological structures are presented in comparatively identical shares. The fatty body mass, being 16,29 per cent of the total body mass of the subjects studied was determined to the same subjects according to the method of Möhr and Milev. It was established that the fatty body mass was within the physiological limits among the students from the group of ectomorphy and from the group with balanced mesomorphy, non-manifested obesity had the subjects with ectomorphic endomorphy, endomorphic mesomorphy and with central somatotype and with manifested obesity--the students with balanced and mesomorphic endomorphy.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

[Clinical biochemical changes in ischemic heart disease: hyperuricemia as a risk factor].

One hundred and sixty patients with IHD were examined--73 males and 87 females, average age for males--58.58 +/- 12.69 and for females--59.65 +/- 7.76. Elevated levels of uric acid were found in 51.5 per cent. The correlation analysis showed a positive correlation dependence between total fats and uric acid, between cholesterol and uric acid as well as between total protein and uric acid and reverse dependence between uric acid and alpha 2-globulines, beta and gamma globuline fractions. The results from the investigations carried out provided grounds to admit hyperuricemia to be one of the risk factors of IHD.

Blood Glucose↗
PubMed1978

[Immunodepressive properties of diethyleneimine benzoquinone-containing polyvinylpyrrolidone complexes].

The authors examined the changes, which occurred in the weight of lymphoid organs (thymus, spleen, and lymph nodes) and titre of serum hemagglutinines against sheep erythrocytes in mice BAIB/c under the influence of treatment with diethyleniminbenzochinon and some of its complexes with polyvinylpirolidon (PVP). The ratio of the substances composing the complexes (in mg per 1000 mg of complex) was as followed: DEiBx- PVP complex NoI-340:660; DEiBx-PVP complex No2-200:800; DEiBx-PVP-Uracyl complex No3-250:500:250. There was a sharp reduction of the weight of lymphoid organs in mice, treated with DEiBx, singly or in the form of complexes NoI and No2 in comparison with the control nontreated mice or treated with complex No3. This effect was more manifested after treatment with DEiBx during the same regimen (0.8 mg/kg of body weight daily for 5 days). The ability of the treated animals to react to immunization with sheep erythrocytes practicaly was not impaired during the treatment with complexes No2 and No3 or the damage was slight (complex NoI) in contrast to the treatment with DEiBx.

Agglutinins↗
PubMed1978

[Immune response to sheep erythrocytes fixed in formaldehyde].

Treatment of sheep erythrocytes with 1.5% of formaldehyde alter their immunogenic properties. On the background of immune response to nonfixed erythrocytes, the performed studies showed the following peculiarities in the reaction of mice to fixed erythrocytes: 1) the primary response of animals, in ected with fixed erythrocytes, was rather weak after its determination by the number of rosette forming cells (RFC), antibody forming cells (AFC) in the spleen and by the of hemagglutinins (HA) in serum; 2) in contrast to the primary response the fixed erythrocytes induced a good secondary response, which was considerably higher/according to the number of RFC and titre of HA/in mice sensibilized by nonfixed erytrocytes in advance than in those presensibilized by fixed cells. Therefore the fixed erythrocytes were weaker inducers of immunologic memory than the nonfixed under equal other conditions. 3) In contrast to the nonfixed the fixed erythrocytes did not induce the formation of large amounts of direct AFC during the secondary response as well even then when the animals were presensibilized by nonfixed form of the antigen.

Agglutinins↗