[Pneumonia: errors in outpatient diagnosis and treatment].

Aim: To reveal errors in diagnosis and treatment of pneumonias in outpatients.

Material And Methods: The analysis of 345 case records of outpatients.

Results: It is demonstrated that initially most of the patients had no symptoms and physical data pointing to pneumonia.

[Efficacy of a complementary antiinflammatory treatment with erespal in chronic obstructive and nonobstructive bronchitis].

Aim: To compare efficacy of atrovent alone and in combination with erespal in patients with chronic bronchitis (CB) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Material And Methods: Of 80 participants of the trial (51 male and 29 female--63.75 and 36.

[Analysis of autopsy data on patients who died at home of pneumonia].

According to 2675 autopsy protocols on patients who died at home in 1995-1997, pneumonia occurred in 298 cases (61.0% of the primary and 39.0% of the secondary pneumonia).