Zeitschrift für Erkrankungen der Atmungsorgane
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With increasing consumption of tobacco the number of deaths caused by respiratory carcinoma is growing. There was, however, not found any shortening of the duration of life. Other neoplasms, heart and vascular diseases and all the other kinds of disease are distributed in the four groups of smokers without any evident influences of smoking.
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Reported is a clinical follow-up study in 15 patients with Histiocytosis X. The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years. In centre of analysis are results of lung function tests and radiological findings. ⋯ In spite of consequent therapy in single cases recurrences and transition in late stage have been observed. Prognosis in patients in late stage is worse than in patients in early stage. In these cases the long-term prednisone therapy is not able to prevent progression of the disease.
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Z Erkr Atmungsorgane · Jan 1984
[Cystic hypoplasia of the lung--pathogenesis, clinical aspects, diagnosis and therapy].
The results of the angiobronchological examination of 229 patients are presented, among them 175 with cystic hypoplasia of the lung, and 54 with acquired cyst-like bronchiectases. One hundred and nineteen of them were operated on. ⋯ The pecularities of pathogenesis of cystic hypoplasia and the indications for surgical treatment of the different patterns of the disease were defined. The late results (up to 10 years) proved favourable in 74% of surgically treated cases.
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Z Erkr Atmungsorgane · Jan 1982
Historical Article[Problems of the pathogenesis and of the pathology of tuberculosis once and at present].
The paper is giving review of some important points in the development of pathology and especially of pathogenesis of tuberculosis. Highly different conceptions of the cause and the kind of tuberculosis existed in the past times up to the detection of the tubercl bacteria by Robert Koch and even later on. About 100 years ago in medical research the mean discussion of tuberculosis problem was determined by two men, Robert Koch and Rudolf Virchow. The last part of the paper deals with some aspects and actual problems of tuberculosis in the last decades.
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Z Erkr Atmungsorgane · Jan 1981
Case Reports[Prophylactic and therapeutic intermittent positive pressure breathing with combined therapeutic aerosols (IPPB/I)--functional and morphological effects. II. Therapeutic IPPB/I in ventilation disturbances of the lung (author's transl)].
The present paper describes the therapeutic use of IPPB/I in postoperative pulmonary complications with ventilation disturbances of the lung. The beneficial effects of IPPB/I are shown in chest X-rays. The suppositions for performing IPPB/I, concerning equipment, staff and organization, are explained.