Simptoms

UNLABELLED: In this study, we analysed the correlations between endoscopic aspects and histopathological changes at the patients with dispeptic simptoms and anti-Helicobacter pylori antibodies, investigated with upper endoscopy. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Our study comprised of 418 patients from Bacău Hospital, in period October 2005 - October 2008. Histopathological diagnosis was correlated with endoscopic aspects. RESULTS: Average age was 55 years, with predominance of woman and rural people, without statistical significance...

The case report presents a patient (male, 21 years old) who had a car accident and sustained an injury of upper cervical spine. X-ray examinations showed instability of C1-2 segment with a simultaneous os odontoideum. Subsequently CT and MRI examinations were performed to specify the anatomical relations. The patient had only a neurological lesion revealed by the examination by motor evoked potentials (MEP). The metric measurements on standard and functional radiographs showed a minimal sagittal dimension (Dmin) of 13 mm, the distance between os odontoideum and C1 arch (Datl) was 24 mm, the instability index after Penning was 20 mm, the distance between os odontoideum and proc...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocitic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) is low-grade malignant lymphoprolipheration, that has tendency to convert to a higher-grade neoplasm over time. More common is the development of a diffuse large cell lymphoma or transformation into prolymphocytic cell population. In rare cases, 0.1-0.5% of patients develop multiple myeloma or Hodgkin's disease. We present 65-year-old female with Hodgkin's variant of Richter's syndrome. On the basis of clinical simptoms, cytological, hystological and immunohistological finding in April 2008 CLL/SLL were diagnosed...

OBJECTIVE: Analysis of risk factors for achieving clinically overt hepatitis B and hepatitis C in the population of Bucharest municipality. METHODS: retrospective and descriptive study on hospital patients cohort. Cases - in the study have been enrolled all acute viral hepatitis B and C confirmed by the two infectious diseases university clinics of Bucharest municipality, during the time interval 2001-2008, among the residents of the municipality. Infection risk factors - for every case of hepatitis B and hepatitis C with the simptoms onset placed during the time interval 2001-2008, it was associated "the most plausible" risk factor, detected by case investigation...

INTRODUCTION: To describe characteristics of urinary tract infections attended in an Emergency Department. To assess antibiotic prescription and inappropriate treatment implications. METHODS: Adults patients attended in an Emergency Department during 2 months with UTI confirmed with urocultive were included. Appropriate antibiotic treatment was considered if the first antibiotic used was sensitive. We compared patients with appropriate and inappropriate antibiotic treatment...

The neonatal obstacle caused by a pre-pyloric diaphragm represent a rare cause of high oclusion in new-born. We present the case of a 6 days old new-born admitted in our department for nonbilious vomiting and feeding intolerance in which the clinical exam and the imagistic explorations (plain and contrast abdominal X-Rays, and ultrasound) could not reveal an evident cause for the oclusion. The surgical intervention imposed by the simptoms revealed the existece of a complete diaphragm in the prepyloric region...

BACKGROUND: The aim of this research was to examine differences among two groups of girls, models and ballerinas (with risk factors - experimental group) and young students (control group), in body image preception, body mass index, neurotic perfectionism, body - image distortion and simptoms of eating disorders. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The research was conducted with 91 participants divided in two groups, control group - 55 students at University of Sarajevo and experimental group - 13 professional ballerinas, 23 professional models...

INTRODUCTION: Chylous ascites is a rare complication after a number of abdominal and retroperitoneal surgeries. Althought conservative treatment may be curative, a reoperation to sell out the open megalymphatics in the operative field may be needed. PATIENT AND METHOD: A 60 year-old woman was treated with a laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for a 9.5x7.5 cm, pT2 pN0 tumor. A carefull dissection of the renal hilium was performed, distal ureter was clipped and several gross peritumoral lymphatic vessels were clipped or coagulated, with no inmediate complications...

BACKGROUND/AIM: Nocturia often occures in patients with benign prostata hyperplasia (BPH). The aim of the study was to investigate the frequency of nocturia in patients with BPH. Nocturia and other factors associated with it were also investigated. METHODS: Forty patients with the confirmed diagnosis of BPH were studied. Transurethral and transvesical prostatectomy were performed in all the patients. Simptoms were evaluated with the International Prostete Sypmtom Score before, as well as three and six months after the surgery...

BACKGROUND/AIM: Systemic connective tissue diseases (SCTD) are chronic inflammatory autoimmune disorders of unknown cause that can involve different organs and systems. Their course and prognosis are different. All of them can, more or less, involve the respiratory sistem. The aim of this study was to find out the frequency of respiratory simptoms, lung function disorders, radiography and high-resolution computerized tomography (HRCT) abnormalities, and their correlation with the duration of the disease and the applied treatment...

The matters under studies were interrelations between cranial-cerebral trauma and ischemic stroke in old patients. Cranial-cerebral trauma took place before ischemic stroke in 80 cases. Ischemic stroke took place before cranial-cerebral trauma in 174 cases. There was determined predominance of vessels neurologycal simptoms in combination with cranial-cerebral trauma and ischemic stroke. Some symptoms of cranial-cerebral trauma predominate only in acute traumatic period. But the vessels neurological symptoms become prevailing again after successful treatment in connection with cranial-cerebral trauma...

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is the presence of endometrial glands and stroma outside of uterine cavity. It may occur in the abdominal wall scar after the operation in which uterus was opened. In cesarean section scar it occurs in 0.4%. It is in 2/3 patients characterised with triad of: tumor, periodic pain associated with menses and history of cesarean section. The mechanism of endometriosis occuring in the cesarean scar is felt to be secondary to iatrogenic transplantation of endometrium or extrauterine decidual tissue into the incision during the cesarean section...

Torsion of a spleen is a frequent complication of a rare entity--a wandering spleen. A wandering spleen is revealed occasionally, with physical and/or sonographic exam. However, it is often overseen. It has very unspecific simptoms, and can present a diagnostic problem. Splenic torsion manifets itself like an acute abdomen. We have presented a rare case of splenic torsion with unusual clinical findings, followed by a splenic infarction. Due to their promptness, sensitivity, uniqueness and availability, two diagnostic methods have definitive primacy in visualisation of splenic torsion: Color-Doppler sonography and CT with intravenous application of contrast medium...

Brittle asthma is a rare form of severe asthma characterized by a wide variation of Peak Expiratory Flow (PEF), in spite of heavy doses of steroides. Brittle asthmatic patients had very serious and often, life threatening, attacks. Type 1 brittle asthma is characterized by a mantained PEF variability despite therapy, and it affected mostly female, aged between 15 and 55 years. Type 1 is associated to skin prick tests positivity and food intolerance. Several studies have referred a correlation with personality disorders...

After the war in Croatia, many people are suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The aim of this research was to analyse the impact of symptoms of PTSD and their intensity on working ability of those patients. Two groups of patients with PTSD hospitalized at Psychiatric Department of osijek Clinical Hospital were interviewed. The first one consisted of 80 patients who were (by psychiatrist) estimated as able to work, and the second of 80 patients who were estimated as unable to work. In this research we used ICD-10 classification for diagnosis of PTSD, self-estimate scale for evaluation of intensity of simptoms of PTSD, Brief psychiatric ratin scale (BPRS) and medical files...

The overall goal of all therapeutic interventions in Alzheimer s disease (AD) is the optimisation of the adaptive functions and quality of life of these patients. The general strategy for the use of pharmacological interventions in the treatment of neuropsychiatric manifestations of AD includes the following: 1) An exhaustive evaluation of the psychiatric symptomatology; 2) Establish a hierachy of the simptoms to treat based on their severity of symptoms and on their impact on the caregiver; 3) The identification of an adequate agent based on the type of symptoms and subject s characteristics; 4) The initial use of low doses with gradual titration, and 5) Changing one drug at a time...

A case of leiomyoma of the small bowel which growth in the mesentery is reported. After review of the late literature, the Authors prove that this tumor is rare. The clinical examination and the simptoms associated with this neoplasm are aspecific for many months, so that X-ray as well as other complementary examinations are often necessary for the diagnosis.

A case of empyema of the gallbladder in a eight year old child is reported. The child presented simptoms relatively constant in the hydrops of the gallbladder, nomely abdominal pain usually confined to the right upper quadrant and or epigastrium, fever, nausea, vomit, dehidratation; a tender abdominal mass was palpable. As usually occurs in childhood, the acute distension of the gallbladder followed in this report, to preceding focus of infection (angina and cervical lymphadenopathy). Ultrasonography permitted to address the correct diagnosis...

BACKGROUND: Pelvic radiation therapy is usually associated with intestinal symptoms, especially diarrhea. Sucralfate has been demonstrated to be effective in peptic ulcers, and seems to provide some benefits in chemotherapy induced mucositis and radiogenic rectitis and enteritis. METHODS: Thirty-four patients between 20-80 years of age, without diarrea and with a Karnofsky index greater than 60%, undergoing whole pelvic irradiation (46 Gy total dose, 2 Gy/day, 5 days/week) have been randomized to receive: sucralfate (1g/6h) (18 patients) or placebo (16 patients) during the treatment period and 3 weeks later...

A group of six adult cows Holstein-Frision was left grazing on a pasture formed exclusively with Brachiaria radicans Napper. This investigation was was undertaken during the rather dry winter with the graminea showing a low nitrat content. The animals failed to present any of the typical simptoms of intoxication and the weekly clinical and hematologycal examinations detected a hyperchromic macrocytic anaemia eventually jointed to anisocytosis and basophylic stippling in the red cells. The anaemia was controlled by removing the animals from the pasture...