[Allergy and intolerance to food in an Icelandic urban population 20-44 years of age.].

Objective: Symptoms related to the intake of certain food items are common. In most of these cases food allergy/intolerance can not be confirmed. In the Icelandic part of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey the prevalence of food-related symptoms was assessed among adult Icelanders.

[Ambulatory measuraments are better tolerated than in-hospital measuraments of sleep apnea.].

Objective: This study compares self reported measures of sleep quality between groups of patients undergoing ambulatory or in-hospital annual control of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy.

Methods: 70 consecutive Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) patients scheduled for an annual control of CPAP therapy were randomly assigned to either ambulatory or in the hospital conditions. The same recording equipment was used in both conditions.

[The use of endobronchial stents in Iceland].

Diseases that cause progressive obstruction of the larger airways are commonly encountered in pulmonary medicine. Even slight narrowing of the larger airways can cause intense symptoms and sometimes be life-threatening. In recent years progress has been made in endobronchial intervention procedures.

[Bronchial artery embolization as a treatment for massive hemoptysis. A case report].

A 47 year old male was admitted to the pulmonary medicine department in Landspítali University Hospital following a three day episode of massive hemoptysis but prior to admission he had been suffering from a dry cough for several weeks. Neither bronchoscopy nor a CT scan revealed the cause of bleeding and he was treated for bronchitis. Subsequently the bleeding stopped and he was discharged on Friday for a follow-up bronchoscopy to be performed three days later but only for that study to reveal continued bleeding and he was therefore readmitted.