[The quality of voice in coal-miners after burn/inhalation injury due to methane explosion].

The job as a coal-miner exposes to the greatest risk. One of the most dangerous health hazard is a burn/inhalation injury during the methane explosion. The victims undergo physical trauma, effect of high temperature and inhalation of toxic gases and products of incomplete combustion, As a result of inhalation injury both, upper and lower airways are affected.

[Long-term results of airways' injury after a methane explosion].

Injuries caused by thermal trauma more and more often affect people and they are an important problem of contemporary medicine. It is connected with the civilization development. Burn concerns not only the exterior integuments of the body but also airways, in those cases, the death rate among those who were injured with the thermal trauma increases.

[Peritoneal tuberculosis mimicking ovarian cancer--diagnostic difficulties. Two cases reports].

Tuberculosis, and specially its extrapulmonary location still causes diagnostic difficulties. In 2007, in Poland 7.3% of newly registered cases of tuberculosis in Poland were located extrapulmonary.

Correlation of exhaled nitric oxide with nitrogen oxides and selected cytokines in induced sputum of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.

Assessment of exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) provides seemingly conflicting results and the relationships between eNO and other sputum inflammatory mediators are relatively weakly recognized. In the present study we measured eNO in 63 subjects (14 non-smoking healthy controls and 49 COPD stable patients--15 patients at stage 0, 9 patients at stage 1, 16 patients at stage 2, and 9 patients at stage 3). Additionally, concentrations of cytokines (IL-8, TNF-alpha, TGF-beta1, GM-CSF, Eotaxin) and nitrogen oxides (as nitrite or nitrate) (NOs) were measured in induced sputum in these patients.

Late consequences of respiratory system burns.

Burn inhalation has negative effects on pulmonary function and may result in whole airway damage. The consequences of a methane explosion are thermal injury of the respiratory tract, shock wave, and carbon monoxide intoxication. The aim of this study was to determine changes in the pulmonary function tests (PFTs) after six years of follow-up in miners who survived a methane explosion.