[Effect of a meal on electrocardiographic features in patients with coronary artery disease].

The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between gastric motility and extent of coronary insufficiency in males with and without stabile coronary artery disease (CAD). The study group consisted of 30 males with CAD (mean age 56 +/- 12 years) and 10 healthy males in control group (mean age 52 +/- 14 years). In both groups we performed exercise treadmill test (ETT) in interdigestive period (IP) and postprandially after ingestion of a standard meal (775 kcal) after 30 and 120 min.

[Diagnostic difficulties in scanty symptomatic pituitary tumor].

Adenomas are the most frequent pituitary tumours and constitute up to 8% of intracranial tumors. They are divided according to size into microadenomas and macroadenomas, the latter are expanding suprasellary, and also infiltrate the base of the skull. Depending on histological staining, they are divided into neutrophilic, acidophilic and basophilic adenomas.

[Cardiac tamponade as the first clinical manifestation of squamous cell carcinoma].

The case concerns a 56 year old male with the diagnosis of squamous cell carcinoma, which clinically presented as a rapidly increasing cardiac tamponade. The patient underwent a pericardio-centesis. Due to the expansion of the process within the bronchus, the patient underwent chemotherapy according to the Taxol + Carboplatine scheme.