[Analysis of HBV source in patients hospitalized at the Department of Hematology and Clinical Immunology of the Medical Academy in Warsaw in the years 2000-2003].

The purpose of the study was to evaluate routes of HBV transmission in 140 patients hospitalized in the Department of Hepatology and AIDS, Medical University of Warsaw in the years 2000--2003. Authors found two major routes of HBV infection in the observed patients: drug abuse and the unknown route in the group of young people and infection transmitted at the non-surgical wards among the patients older than 40 years.

[Pneumocystis carinii infections in patients with neoplasms and AIDS--clinical-pathologic changes in the lungs].

Pneumocystis carinii (PC) has been documented as a cause of pneumonia in a broad range of immunocompromised patients. The presentation of disease will very based on the underlying predisposing condition but a confirmation depends upon the identification of organisms in a bronchial aspiration or lung biopsy specimen. This retrospective study based on autopsies of 15 patients (pts) with AIDS and 12 non AIDS pts with neoplastic diseases.

[Selected diagnostic and clinical aspects of chronic viral hepatitis type C].

The aim of this study was to evaluate selected diagnostic and clinical aspects of chronic hepatitis C (CH-C) in the group of 80 patients: 68 males aged 24-65 (mean 39.8 +/- 10,5) and 12 females aged 35-66 (mean 48.7 +/- 12.

[Treatment of chronic hepatitis B with interferon alfa-2b (Intron A)].

Eighteen patients with biopsy proven chronic hepatitis B and markers of ongoing viral replication were treated with interferon alpha-2b (Intron A) while 24 similar patients served as control group. Permanent termination of HBV replication and normalization of ALT and AST activity was seen in 7 (39%) treated patients and in only two (8%) controls (p less than 0.05).