Chemotherapy of Chronic Bronchitis and Allied Disorders

Leukæmia and Allied Disorders

Retinitis Pigmentosa and Allied Disorders

Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a generic term for a group of disorders characterized by hereditary diffuse usually bilaterally symmetrical progressive dysfunction, cell loss and eventual atrophy of retina. Initially photoreceptors are involved and subsequently inner retina is damaged. Although both rods and cones are involved, damage to the rods is predominant. RP may be seen in isolation (Typica...

Suggestions on Chorea and Allied Nervous Disorders

investigation. The three diseases mentioned are usually classed together and under the beading of ? Diseases of the Nervous System." The present paper refers chiefly to cborea. A study of the literature of the disease, such as is possible in an isolated Indian station, modified by the observation of a choreic patient, has led to the following remarks. The patient under observation is a girl age...

Atopy, smoking, and chronic bronchitis.

The aim was to test the hypothesis that atopy increases the occurrence of chronic bronchitis. Relations between atopy, smoking, and chronic bronchitis were studied in farmers. The data were from two successive postal surveys and a skin prick tested subsample. The cross-sectional study consisted of 9017 farmers. Those 6899 farmers who did not have chronic bronchitis at the beginning and who cont...

CIFEEST eddorials Chronic Bronchitis

CHEST / 89 / 3 / MARCH, 1986 321 Oxidant Damage by Leukocytes T he pathogenesis of chronic bronchitis remains poorly understood. Particularly significant is our lack of understanding of why only a minority of patients with “simple” chronic bronchitis progress to the advanced form of the disease with chronic airflow obstruction. Much of our knowledge of this disease is derived from morphologic s...