Metatropic dysplasia in four-year-old boy--physiotherapy and orthopaedic care problems--case report.

Metatropic dysplasia is a rare skeletal dysplasia caused by a mutation in the VDRL4 gene. Characteristic abnormalities include tubular bones with short diaphyses and wide metaphyses, delayed ossification of the ischio/pubic bone, and platyspondyly. The main problem is progressive kyphoscoliosis, which significantly limits the patient's motor development.

[Przystanek Woodstock 2009 and 2010--danger to life and health and medical security of mass event].

Introduction: Przystanek Woodstock Festival is one of the biggest polish music festivals, which gathers nearly half million participants each year. The aim of the article was presentation of number and type of the medical cases and the medical interventions in the main field hospital - OAZA. The second aim was assessment of medical cover of XV and XVI Przystanek Woodstock Festival.

Pulse volume changes recorded by air plethysmography during single hemodialysis sessions.

Aims: This study investigated whether fluid removal during a hemodialysis (HD) session affects the results of non-invasive pulse volume recording (PVR) on the lower extremities.

Methods: The results of PVR by air plethysmography (Portable Vascular Laboratory; BioMedix, USA) were compared with bioelectrical impedance analysis (Nutriguard-M device; Data Input, Germany) of the human body before and after a single HD in 28 anuric patients (10 women; 18 men) aged 33-76 years.

Results: Changes in the wave amplitude of the PVR correlated with the changes in the patient's weight during HD.

[Megacalycosis as a diagnostic problem in children].

Megacalycosis is an uncommon, congenital renal abnormality, characterized by nonobstructive dilatation of the renal calyces with normal renal pelvis, ureter and bladder. This condition is due to underdevelopement or hypoplasia of Malpighie's pyramids. It usually occurs unilateraly as the isolated anomaly with strong male predominance.

[The frequency of diagnosis of catatonic schizophrenia in hospitals in Lubliniec (1894-1932, 1934-1936, 1970-1999) and Boleslawiec (1958-1999)].

Aim: The analysis of the data from the psychiatric hospitals in Lubliniec (1894-1932, 1934-1936, 1970-1999) and Bolesławiec (1958-1999) proved a decrease in frequency of diagnosis of catatonic schizophrenia, what could testify to a decrease in morbidity with this form of schizophrenia.

Method And Results: Basing on the facts from scientific literature there was ascertained that the decrease in frequency of diagnosis of catatonic schizophrenia is connected with following causes: firstly, with the changes in nozology, secondly, with the introduction of a new form of therapy and finally, with the fact that here psychological and sociological factors exist which eliminate catatonia as the most expressive form of schizophrenia.