The sentence intelligibility in different types of noise regarding people with a normal hearing ability.

The capability of speech understanding can be tested in the form of sentences. This report describes the origin of a new test in the Czech language to evaluate the sentence intelligibility with the presence of the competitive disturb noise. The results of the test depend on the test project, sentence material, competitive signal, test evaluation, and hearing conditions.

Periodicity of arrhythmias in healthy elderly men at the moderate altitude.

The 24-hour periodicity of supraventricular (SVPB) and ventricular (VEB) extrasystoles in healthy elderly men (age 49-69 years) was studied at two altitudes during 24 h Holter ECG monitoring. At the low altitude (200 m, n = 26), SVPB were more frequent than VEB. The highest occurrence of SVPB was at 17:00 h, the lowest at 01:00 and 02:00 h (P<0.

[Pollenosis in children in the Tatra Mountain region].

Background: During the last 20 years we can observe a marked rise of allergic diseases in the child and adult population with a dominant increase of pollenoses in children. It is assumed that this adverse development is due to changes in the ecosystem caused above all by contamination of the living environment. Our objective was to examine school children in Tatranská Strba and Strbské Pleso as regards sensitization to different groups of pollen allergens.

[Traumatic hemobilia. A case report (author's transl)].

A case of traumatic hemobilia is reported. After ligation of the left hepatic artery and additional dearterialisation a third bleeding period occured due to a porto-hepatic communication, diagnosed by a transumbilical portography. A left hepatic lobectomy was finally necessary to achieve hemostasis.