[Primary characterization of the properties and diagnostic value of the antigenic complex "fraction V" in a plague microbe].

The experimentally obtained antigenic complex isolated by extraction in the gradient surfactants from live and acetone-dried bacteria of the capsule-free vaccine strain EV76 of a plague microbe that had lost its ability to synthesize the diagnostic species-specific capsular antigen F1 was investigated. The antigenic complex fraction V (FV) was obtained after the fifth stage of extraction at a concentration of 1.28% of surfactants and after additional purification.

Allocation of emergency ward patients to medicine departments: increasing physicians' incentive to shorten length of stay.

Background: Duration of hospital stay is one of the major determinants of hospital cost. In addition, high bed occupancy, especially in internal medicine departments, can delay the admission of patients from the emergency ward.

Objective: To shorten average hospital stay and hasten admission of patients from the emergency room to the medicine department.

Q wave and Non-Q wave myocardial infarction after thrombolysis.

Objectives: We studied the clinical outcome of Q wave and non-Q wave infarction after thrombolytic therapy.

Background: Controversy exists over the clinical significance of Q waves after thrombolysis.

Methods: We studied postthrombolytic angiographic results and short- and long-term clinical outcome in 150 patients with acute myocardial infarction classified as Q wave and non-Q wave on the 24-h and discharge electrocardiograms (ECGs).

Early T wave inversion after thrombolytic therapy predicts better coronary perfusion: clinical and angiographic study.

Objectives: This study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that early inversion of T waves after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction predicts patency of the infarct-related artery with high Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) perfusion flow and better in-hospital outcome.

Background: Although numerous studies have demonstrated a strong association between early resolution of ST segment elevation after acute myocardial infarction and successful thrombolysis, little is known about early changes in T waves after thrombolytic therapy.

Methods: Ninety-four consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) were studied with admission and predischarge radionuclide ventriculography and with coronary angiography within 72 h of admission.

Disappearance of a syndrome: Dressler's syndrome in the era of thrombolysis.

The incidence of the post-myocardial infarction syndrome (Dressler's syndrome) among thrombolized patients has not been established yet. To clarify this issue we prospectively studied 201 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction who had undergone recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator therapy followed by 5 days of heparin administration. All patients were followed for at least 3 months for clinical signs of Dressler's syndrome.

A 13-years remission in chronic myelocytic leukemia after a single course of busulfan.

A patient with chronic myelocytic leukemia in whom a clinical and hematological remission occurred after a single course of busulfan is described. The remission lasted for a period of 13 years and during that lapse of time, she gave birth to a healthy child. Afterwards, acute myeloblastic leukemia was diagnosed.