According to various data, snoring may affect about 2 billion people worldwide, with about 8 million adult people in Poland being estimated to snore. Apart from being disturbing for other people, it brings about a measurable risk for the patient, which results from transient anoxia. As a consequence, it may increase the risk of arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, cerebral stroke and i...

In retrospect, basic research in the fields of NO and cyclic GMP during the past two decades appears to have followed a logical course beginning with the findings that NO and cyclic GMP are vascular smooth muscle relaxants, that nitroglycerin relaxes smooth muscle by metabolism to NO, progressing to the discovery that mammalian cells synthesize NO, and finally the revelation that NO is a neurot...

OBJECTIVES To define the patient-reported complications after cryoablation therapy for prostate cancer and to compare these results to previously published patient-reported complications for radical prostatectomy and external beam irradiation. METHODS A questionnaire similar to previously published patient-reported complication studies was sent to the first 290 patients treated by cryoablatio...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review assesses the risk of developing diffuse malignant mesothelioma of the pleura from exposures to chrysotile fibers and contrasts it with the known risk of amphibole asbestos. RECENT FINDINGS Although a rare cancer, the mortality rates of pleural mesothelioma continue to be significantly elevated because of past occupational exposures to airborne asbestos fibers. Ne...

In this research urogenital complications of 300 veterans with the average age of 32.7+_6.5 years were studied for two years( 1995-1996) . They were selected randomly in Kerman province based  on having at least one exposure to chemical warfare, six to ten years before the study. The control group was selected among the troops whom were not exposed to chemical warfare and had an average age of ...

OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes following totally transanal endorectal pull-through (TTERPT) versus pull-through with any form of laparoscopic assistance (LAPT) for infants with uncomplicated Hirschsprung's disease. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. SETTING Five hospitals with a paediatric surgical service. PARTICIPANTS 405 infants with uncomplicated Hirschsprung's disease. INTE...

Intracellular tubercle bacilli (TB) reside in vacuoles in infected human macrophages (MPs). The relative impotency of streptomycin against TB in MPs and the contrary greatly increased potency of pyrazinamide (PZA) have been attributed to the fact that these vacuoles are phagolysosomes and, therefore, acidic. Chloroquine (CQ) is a lysomotropic base which can be used to raise phagolysosomal pH. C...

The Hibiscus cannabinus (H. cannabinus) seed is used for curing male infertility and impotency in traditional medicine. However, the validity has not been scientifically evaluated. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of H. cannabinus seed on the sexual behaviour of male rats. Sixty six rats were randomized into five groups and were treated as one control group, th...