[Bronchiolitis and pulmonary hypertension].

Objectives: The study was undertaken to assess whether previously healthy infants with bronchiolitis develop elevated pulmonary artery pressures.

Material And Methods: We performed 2D and Doppler echocardiography in 94 infants, aged between 2 and 12 months, from November 2007 to December 2009. 47 infants had bronchiolitis and 47 were in the control group.

Pulmonary hypertension during acute respiratory diseases in infants.

Objectives: The study was undertaken to assess whether previously healthy infants with acute respiratory diseases develop elevated pulmonary artery pressures and to identify which type of disease is associated with pulmonary hypertension.

Material And Methods: We performed 2D and Doppler echocardiography in 137 infants, aged between 1 and 12 month, from November 2007 to December 2009. 75 infants had acute respiratory diseases (49 bronchiolitis, 16 interstitial pneumonia, 3 bronchopneumonia, 6 episodic wheezing, 1 lobar pneumonia) and 62 were in the control group.

Clinical effects of erdosteine in the treatment of acute respiratory tract diseases in children.

Erdosteine has positive effects on mucus rheology and transport due to the active metabolite (Metabolite I) which contains a free thiol group. Erdosteine inhibits bacterial adhesiveness and has antioxidant properties. A synergistic effect of erdosteine with various antibiotics has been demonstrated in pharmacological and clinical studies.

Disseminated Langerhans cell histiocytosis: a case report with a light microscopic and ultrastructural study.

A case of disseminated Langerhans cell histiocytosis (L.C.H.

The spread of X-linked shifting gene responsible for G-6-PD deficit in series of 13,710 subjects from 4 districts of Moldavia.

Between 1985 and 1989, a sample of 13,710 subjects (5,825 males and 7,885 females) from the Vrancea, Bacău, Neamţ and Suceava districts were examined for the presence of this pathological gene, 32 male hemizygotes and 13 female heterozygotes and homozygotes being detected. The incidence of G-6-PD deficit in the hemizygotes was of 0.55%.