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D Zych

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Pulmonary haemodynamics at rest and during exercise in patients with sarcoidosis.

Pulmonary haemodynamics at rest and during exercise was studied in 30 patients with histologically confirmed sarcoidosis. All subjects were divided into three groups according to the stage of the disease assessed by radiological image of pulmonary lesions. At rest, in stage I and II patients, the mean pulmonary pressure (PAP) was normal. In stage III patients, a slight pulmonary hypertension was found. During exercise, a rise in PAP in stage I and II subjects was within the normal limits for a given workload, although in individual stage II subjects a rise in PAP was abnormally high. In all stage III patients a rise in PAP was pathologically elevated.

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[2nd European Symposium on Sarcoidosis. Various methods of corticosteroid therapy].

In order to achieve good results with the corticosteroid-therapy in not spontaneously regredient sarcoidoses a longterm treatment (12-24 months) by considerable corticosteroid-doses proves to be necessary; thereby the problem of side-effects by steroids will arise, especially in young women frequently developing a Cushing-syndrome. By our endeavour to prevent this unpleasant phaenomenon we carried through an alternating attempt with two variant kinds of intermittent treatment. The first method relates to 4 successive days in the week (as it is proposed by P. Krakowka) and the second procedure relates to each 2nd day. The second treatment has proved to be the better one. Side-effects appeared in 31. 9 per cent in case of a daily treatment by steroids, in 27.3 per cent after the application of the method of 4 days a week, and in no one case after an application each second day. The results of the treatment by corticosteroids are equal in all the three groups.

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[Epidemiology of sarcoidosis in Poland (author's transl)].

The numbers of patients registered in chest clinics and of those treated in hospitals or sanatoria enable to calculate the index of sarcoidosis: 7.1/100000 inhabitants in 1973 and 7.7/100000 in 1974. The comparison with the data of the years 1963, 1967, 1968 and 1969 shows an increase of sarcoidosis. Highest frequency has been observed among the age group 30--40 years. Women are slightly predominating (56 p.c.).

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[Influence of corticosteroid-therapy on the course of sarcoidosis (author's transl)].

The examinations relate to 206 patients suffering from a bioptically confirmed sarcoidosis, observed during 1959-1974. The observation period amounted to 2-15 years. The indications of the corticosteroid-therapy ran as follows: 1. in cases of a lymph node sarcoidosis without respiratory disorders, after a 2 years' observation without a regression. 2. in cases with pulmonary alterations already after 3-6 months without a regression. 3. in all cases of an extended pulmonary sarcoidosis. In the first group the sarcoidosis developed spontaneously in 65.2%, after a treatment in 15.7%. In 19.1% there was an unfavourable course, even in treated cases (2.2%). In the second group there was a spontaneous regression in 35.5%, after a treatment in 57%. In 10% the sarcoidosis changed over into the chronic form. The treatment failed in about 3%. In the third group we did not observe any spontaneous regression, after the corticosteroid-therapy a regression appeared in 35.7%. The condition remained unchanged in 64.3%. Totally there was a spontaneous regressions in 44.2% of the patients. Good results after the corticosteroid-therapy were attained in 36.4%, and the rest of about 20% developed to irreversible forms of the disease.

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