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Laparoscopy is a wonderful tool for performing gynecologic surgery. Whether or not laparoscopic surgery is advisable to diagnose or treat a particular gynecologic problem requires a careful consultation with an experienced gynecologist, who can help the patient weight the pros and cons of laparoscopy versus other options. For the management of this kind of surgical intervention we realise a computer based patient record.
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UNLABELLED: The aim of the study was to assign the asthma prevalence in a Romanian region, by using a simplified questionnaire, easy to fill in by every subject without specialized help. The study included 508 subjects, 280 women (55.1%) and 238 men (44.9%). The subjects proceeded from different industrial areas (cement factory, rubber processing factory, fur and leather manufacture) and from a village (214 subjects). 203 subjects, having symptoms compatible with asthma, performed lung function tests with a Flow Screen Jaeger device, determining VC, FEV1, FEV1% VC, MEF50, MEF25, and pharmacodynamic test if needed (bronchoconstrictor or bronchodilator). RESULTS: about 40% of the subjects mentioned the wheezing, among them 18% wheezing and dyspnea. "Asthmatic bronchitis" is present at 14.8% of the subjects, including 4.5% patients with bronchial asthma diagnosed by a physician (underdiagnosis). The asthma symptoms are more frequent in the factories with exposure to inhaled allergens and air pollution. The most discriminative symptom association for asthma was: wheezing and breathlessness and a history of dyspnea in the last year. These symptoms suggest that the prevalence of asthma could be 10.43%. The positive bronchodilator or bronchoconstrictor function test associated with wheezing, present at 7.48% of the population, seems to better evaluate the prevalence of asthma, which approaches other data already published. The questionnaire we used proved that it can select with acceptable accuracy the individuals to be further investigated with lung function tests.
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UNLABELLED: This study aimed to establish the bacterial profile of bronchopulmonary infections confirmed by the cytobacteriological examination of sputum, in order to find therapeutical guidelines for empirical treatment. We included in the study 408 patients with clinical signs of bronchopulmonary infection (cough and mucopurulent sputum, fever) among which 294 hospitalised patients (5.5% of the 5280 admitted in 1997) and 114 outpatients. The sputum samples collected respecting the decontamination methods were examined cytobacteriologically (smear, culture and antibiogram). The spectrum of isolated bacteria was the following: H. influenzae--198 cases, anaerobes--54, Kl. pneumoniae--53, Ps. aeruginosa--50, S. pneumoniae--17. Analyzing the diseases for which the bacterial examination was performed, we found the following distribution: COPD--66, bacterial infections in TB patients--61, chronic suppurations--33, bronchiectasis--37, pulmonary abscess--24. We noticed the high frequency of H. influenzae and important numbers of anaerobes, Kl. pneumoniae and Ps. aeruginosa especially in COPD patients and patients with chronic suppurations. We performed antibiograms for establishing the sensitivity of bacterial samples (S. aureus, Kl. pneumoniae, Ps. aeruginosa, beta-lactamase-positive H. influenzae). Most of them were multidrug-resistant. CONCLUSIONS: 1. The cytobacteriological study of sputum may be useful for choosing the right treatment, especially for the patients with multiple antibiotic treatments and infected with multidrug resistant bacteria; 2. Knowing the bacterial spectrum in certain respiratory diseases allows the choice of empirical treatment for bronchopulmonary infections in uncomplicated cases.
The profunda femoris artery, the main nutritive artery of the thigh, has a great surgical significance. The high frequency of the occlusive arterial disease in the lower limbs caused by atherosclerosis, imposes as main therapy the reconstructive surgery. Because the profunda femoris artery remains patient in most of the cases of the occlusive arterial disease of the lower limbs, it means the only hope of saving an critically ischemic limb in a desperate attempt of a surgeon to avoid amputation.
An inquiry upon the prevalence of the habit of smoking in doctors in Romania, performed in a group of 1136 doctors (p = 0.05) revealed a prevalence of 43.2%, 50.1% in men and 38.6% in women. Smoking is more frequent in group age 30-49 (47.2%). More than half of the smoking doctors smoke between 10 and 20 cigarettes a day. 45.7% of the resident doctors are smokers. Taking into account the large interface with the public, the medical staff can play an important part in the activity of reducing or stopping smoking.
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The Romanian BL-VACC-RO vaccine against bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infection was prepared with ethylenimine-inactivated BLV obtained from persistently infected cell lines. Intramuscular administration of two vaccine doses (each containing 0.40 mg virus glycoprotein with adjuvant), 2 weeks apart, conferred protection against challenge infection with BLV on 18 of the 20 vaccinated calves. Two calves were not protected, in spite of their positive serologic response to vaccination. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the BL-VACC-RO vaccine in preventing BLV infection.
In 1977, coproparazitological examinations, prophylactic and therapeutical studies were carried on 225 children in 14 day nurseries and homes in Cluj-Napoca; 21.57% of children suffered from intestinal parasitosis, giardiasis being found in 92.13% of the infested children. The high incidence of giardiasis led the authors to investigate the hygienic level of the environment. The high frequency of enterobacteriaceae opportunists (77.59%), identified on the hands of the personnel and on certain objects manipulated by the children, pointed to fecal pollution and poor sanitary conditions. The contaminated objects are sources of propagation of Giardia lamblia cysts. The increased incidence of giardiasis and of enterobacteriaceae opportunists in the environment were found both in the communities with many children and in those with few children.