Results The parapneumonic pleurisy has been diagnosed during the first days after onset (1-5 days) in 64 of the patients, for the rest after 6-7 days of evolution. Bacteriological tests identified Streptococcus pneumoniae from sputum in 12 cases, Haemophilus influenzae in 2 cases. Eight patients have been found with high titer IgG antibodies for Chlamydia pneumoniae and 2 cases with IgM antibod...

Introduction Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness but especially important in terms of its impact on the subject. The stigmatization these patients major, leading to significant decrease their quality life. This partly due media coverage rare cases hetero-aggression. aggressiveness schizophrenic subjects remains poorly known and little studied. Objectives objectives our study are determine ...

Lorant, T. 2002. Studies of Rejection in Experimental Xenotransplantation. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1211. 60 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5476-3. One main hurdle to xenotransplantation, i.e. transplantation between different species, is the immunological barrier that the organ meets in the recipient. The aim of thi...

For evaluating the role of behavior pattern and emotional factors in coronary heart disease (CHD), 86 patients were followed for one to three years (average 20 months). The behavior pattern itself was not considered as a main risk factor, rather it was found to be an aggravating and predisposing factor, especially in morbidity rate. Both behavior patterns were more common in males than in ...