[Epidemiology and clinical features in diabetic patients with invasive infections treated at the Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases of Iaşi, Romania, between 2008-2010].

Unlabelled: Infections in the diabetic population can be severe and life threatning at least for two reasons: clinical signs are often torpid, masqued by chronical complications of diabetes leading to late recognition and medical adresability and also because of the inability to control established infection due to complex cell-mediated and humoral immunity deffects. The aim of the study was to evaluate the etiology, clinical features and outcome in diabetic patients with invazive disease.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted between January 2008 and December 2010 at The Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases Iaşi among 75 diabetic patients with sepsis of microbiologically confirmed etiology (positive cultures from normally sterile sites) and sepsis with clinically suspected etiology (positive cultures from pus).

[Correlations between the level of bacterial resistance and the rate of clinical efficiency in the therapy of community-acquired respiratory tract infections].

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficiency of the first-line antibiotic treatment of the community-acquired respiratory tract infections in a population of young adults from an urban setting and to establish the pattern of antibiotic resistance of the germs involved. The bacteria most frequently identified have been: S. pneumoniae, H.

[Antimicrobial resistance profile of E. coli and Klebsiella spp. from urine in the Infectious Diseases Hospital Iaşi].

Unlabelled: The increasing frequency of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) producing Enterobacteriaceae among nosocomial and community-acquired infections is an important problem for both microbiologists and clinicians, because of the difficulty in correctly detecting, reporting and treating such infections.

Results: In the Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases Iaşi the most frequent etiological agents of urinary tract infections were: E. coli - 64%, Klebsiella spp.

[Cryptococcus meningitis, five years of experience and literature review].

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to determine the distribution and antifungal susceptibility profile of Cryptococcus spp. isolated from patients in northeast Romania.

Material And Method: Fungi isolated from blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cultures were identified by ID32C strips (bioMerieux, France).

[Keratoconus in Albers-Schönberg disease].

A 34-year-old patient presents bilateral keratoconus with osteo-condensing and osteolysis at the level of long bones, oligophrenia, perception deafness, muscular atrophy, anemia, arterial hypertension--typical manifestation of Albers-Schönberg malady. Osteopetrosis is manifested through an important condensing of the cortical and of bones' spongeous traveas, with medullary channel disappearance and particular bone fragility, which made the affection to be named as "marble bones' illness". The affection is caused by a congenital alteration of the mesenchyma, with excessive deposit of calcium at the level of bones, cartilages, tendons, viscera and vessels.

[The Reese syndrome. Anatomicoclinical and therapeutic considerations].

The paper presents two clinical cases of complex iridocorneal disgenesis with glaucoma and ectodermal anomalies followed for a period of several years. The cases underwent antiglaucomatous surgery that afforded a good visual preservation and an optimum intraocular pressure.

Electromagnetically induced focused heat in the treatment of surgically created aneurysm models.

A hand-held radiofrequency (rf) probe of a novel design based on the principle of the induced current convergence was used to treat aneurysm models using focused hyperthermia. Aneurysms were created surgically in rats by a side-to-side anastomosis between the inferior vena cava and the abdominal aorta or by grafting a donor abdominal aorta from one rat onto the abdominal aorta of another rat. Aneurysms were treated by inserting the 0.

Electromagnetic field focusing (EFF) probe--a new neurosurgical tool.

The electromagnetic field focusing (EFF) probe is capable of producing well circumscribed, intense heat at the point of contact with the tissue. Experimental studies were carried out to assess this probe as a neurosurgical tool using 38 rats and 4 mice with mammary carcinoma. The study on the rats included study of the cutting, coagulating and vaporizing effect on brain tissue including study of blood brain barrier disruption and heat dissipation.

Noninvasive tumor volume measurement using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and an open sided saddle coil.

A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging scanner operated at 0.5 T with a specially constructed receiving coil was used to measure volumes of primary spontaneous tumors in rats and guinea pigs. The coil was used to improve the signal to noise ratio (S/N) of the MR images of tumors in these small animals.

Electromagnetic field focusing (EFF) probe in aneurysm thrombosis. Preliminary report.

Due to its capability of producing a well localized intense heat field of predictable dimensions, the electromagnetic field focusing probe was evaluated experimentally as a surgical tool in aneurysm thrombosis. Aneurysm models were created by anastomosing a segment of vein to the abdominal aorta. Seventy-five such aneurysms were created in seventy-five animals.

The morphometry of the glomerular epithelial cell and its foot processes after the injection of bovine serum albumin or egg albumin.

The intraperitoneal injection of 1 g of bovine serum albumin daily for 5 days was shown by electron-microscope morphometry to cause swelling of the glomerular epithelial cells and very severe loss of foot processes. However, these changes were found in only 70 per cent. of glomeruli and the other 30 per cent.