Meeting patient's expectations in primary care consultations in Lithuania.

Objective: Patient satisfaction with health care services is considered an important factor of health care. Although research on patient satisfaction has become standard in Western Europe, in countries such as Lithuania the concept of patient satisfaction is still a relatively new one. This study aimed to investigate how the meeting of patients' expectations is related to increased satisfaction with medical consultation.

[Clinico-immunologic characteristics of mite-borne bronchial asthma].

The authors describe clinicoimmunological features of bronchial asthma caused by Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus. This type of asthma usually afflicts young persons, its course is mild. The main symptoms are dyspnea, rhinitis and conjunctivitis.