Families of people with Marfan syndrome. The relationship between the functioning of the family system and the life quality of the affected persons.

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to analyze the functioning of afamily as perceived by a person with Marfan syndrome and to look for relationships between the characteristics of the system and the overall quality of life of the ill.

Methods: Participants included 33 individuals with Marfan syndrome and 33 individuals without chronic illness. We used the Family Evaluation Scale - the Polish adaptation of the FACES-IVby D.

Non-word reading test vs anaesthesia. How do anaesthetised patients decode the contents without referring to the meaning?

Background: The aim of this study was to examine the phonological functioning (reading speed and accuracy) of hospital patients under general anaesthesia administered during colonoscopy.

Methods: In this study the 'Łatysz' non-word reading test was used to measure the impact of selected anaesthetics on the phonological aspect of language processing (defined as decoding without referring to the meaning) in a group of 22 anaesthetised patients compared to 23 non-anaesthetised patients from university clinics.

Results: Compared to the preoperative performance, a decrease in reading accuracy and reading speed was observed only in the Anaesthesia Group - AG (in the subjects aged ≥ 35 years) 1.

Characteristics of cognitive deficits and writing skills of Polish adults with developmental dyslexia.

The present study was aimed at analysing cognitive deficits of dyslexic adults, and examining their written language skills in comparison with their peers. Our results confirm the presence of a certain profile of symptoms in adult dyslexics. We noticed deficits in: phonological (verbal) short-term memory, phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming (speed, self-corrections), visual perception and control, and visual-motor coordination.

Psychological resources of adults with developmental dyslexia.

The aim of our study was to describe specific psychological resources of adults with developmental dyslexia and compare them with psychological resources of adults without developmental dyslexia. Potential differences were analyzed in visual-spatial, creative, and motivational abilities. No evidence was found for either creative, or visuospatial superiority in adults with developmental dyslexia.

Evaluation of a neurotherapy program for a child with ADHD with Benign Partial Epilepsy with Rolandic Spikes (BPERS) using event-related potentials.

Background: We hypothesized that there would be a good response to relative beta training, applied to regulate the dynamics of brain function in a patient with benign partial epilepsy with Rolandic Spikes (BPERS), associated with neuropsychiatric deficits resembling the symptoms of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Case Report: The patient, E.Z.

[A clinical assessment of a 3 month replacement therapy effectiveness with low norethisterone acetate (Activelle) in postmenopausal women].

Aim: The clinical evaluation of Activelle formula in treatment of climacteric symptoms in postmenopausal women.

Material And Methods: Formula Activelle (oral 1 mg 17 beta-estradiol combined with 0.5 mg norethisterone acetate) was applied daily in 100 post-menopausal women during 3 months.

Management of suppurative pylephlebitis by percutaneous drainage: placing a drainage catheter into the portal vein.

Persistent infection of the portal vein is a rare entity with significant mortality. We present two cases of infected thombis of the portal vein, one infected with fungus and the other with bacteria, both requiring percutaneous drainage to allow a response to antibiotics. The distinction between bland thrombis, infected thrombis, portal venous air, and pneumobilia will be discussed so that suppurative pylephlebitis can be recognized more easily as drain placement appears to affect a more prompt degree of improvement than antibiotics alone.

Effect of knowledge of chronologic age on the variability of pediatric bone age determined using the Greulich and Pyle standards.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of knowing chronologic age on the variability of pediatric bone age determination using the method of Greulich and Pyle.

Materials And Methods: Radiographs of the left hand of 107 patients were interpreted by four radiologists on two separate occasions, once with and once without knowledge of the patient's chronologic age at time of interpretation. Twenty-five radiographs were randomly selected and reevaluated twice by each radiologist.

[Coexistence of endometrioid ovarian tumor and squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix].

A case of the coexistence of the endometrioid ovary carcinoma and frank cervical carcinoma was shown. The diagnostic procedure, surgery and complementary therapy were described. On the basis of the follow-up of the patient it seams that the coexistence of these carcinomas neither accelerate the development of disease nor make worse the prognosis.

[Micro-glandular hyperplasia of the cervix canal mucosa].

During the period of 1981-1990 2109 diagnostic-therapeutical curettages of the cervical canal and uterus were performed in the Department of Gynecology and Oncology of Medical Academy in Kraków. In histological examinations of scrapings 17 cases (0.8%) of micro-glandular hyperplasia limited to cervical canal have been found.