[Medico-legal aspects of chronic respiratory insufficiency under long-term oxygen inhalation therapy].

Ninety-one subjects affected by severe pulmonary insufficiency necessitating continuous treatment with oxygen were studied. The social and professional realities and their status within the national health service were determined. The results of the research, obtained through the use of the questionnaires, showed that the lives of these subjects are very much influenced by their pathology.

[Chronic kidney failure: dialysis and kidney transplantation. The medicolegal and social considerations].

The authors carried out a research on the social and labour problems of the people affected by chronic renal failure, either on dialysis treatment or already transplanted since two years. It has been given a questionnaire based on questions about the person, the working position, the social insurance situation, the family and personal problems. The results show a good social reinsert and a good recover of the transplanted in opposition of the many problems had by those on dialysis; in particular it has been considered also the problem of the periodic absences from work.