Pulmonary actinomycosis - the great imitator.

Pulmonary localisation represents only 15% of all cases of actinomycosis. The clinical symptoms and radiological changes of this disease are non-specific and sometimes it can be misdiagnosed, usually as tuberculosis, lung cancer or lung abscess. In the reported case, what might look like the lung cancer, finally turned out to be actinomycosis.

[Late diagnosis of Gaucher's disease - care reports].

Unlabelled: Gaucher's disease if one of the most frequent, among extremely rare, lysosomal storage diseases. It is the autosomal recessive inherited metabolic disorder, which can present in three main clinical forms. Type 1 - the most benign, in a not-neuropathic form, and types 2 and 3, both in neuropathic form, which manifest serious neurological symptoms.

'TB or not TB?' Problems of differential diagnosis of cutaneous mycobacteriosis and tuberculosis--A Case Study and interdisciplinary discussion.

The diagnosis of cutaneous tuberculosis poses a serious challenge due to many skin diseases of different etiology resembling the lesions caused by the TB (tuberculosis) bacillus, and difficulties in confirming the disease. The presented case concerns skin lesions in a hobby aquarist stung in the finger of the left hand by a fish. The resulting inflammatory infiltration was to be cutaneous tuberculosis or mycobacteriosis caused by MOTT (Mycobacterium other than tuberculosis).

[Ventilatory disorders in patients with chronic heart failure].

Chronic heart failure (CHF) is a condition in which both structure and functional capacity of cardiac muscle are impaired, resulting in ineffective peripheral tissue perfusion. Affecting numerous organs and systems, it is currently considered to be a systemic illness. Among significant, however until now, hardly recognized consequences of CHF there are ventilatory disorders.

[Comorbidity of chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

Cardiovascular diseases most frequently coexist with the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The studies report on over 10 million patients of population suffering both chronic heart failure (CHF) and COPD. Similarity of the clinical symptoms and risk factors found in the medical history of patients with chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease often causes diagnostic mistakes.

[Treatment of non-small cell lung cancer - where we are?].

Lung cancer is the most common cancer in Poland and in the world, unfortunately diagnosed too late, and combined with a very poor prognosis. For most patients with NSCLC the only possibility of treatment is palliative therapy, including chemotherapy and, in the recent years, molecular targeted therapy. In first-line treatment, cisplatine-based "doublets" are most effective, and in second-line, pemetreksed and docetaxel are used.

Lung cancer in patients under the age of 40 years.

Aim Of The Study: In the paper clinical cases of individuals diagnosed with lung cancer below the age of 40 years have been analyzed.

Material And Methods: THE ANALYSIS INCLUDED: sex, age, clinical symptoms found before and at the moment of diagnosis, character of changes visible in radiological imaging, time that passed from the first symptoms to reporting to a doctor and to establishing a diagnosis, type of diagnostic method used in establishing the final diagnosis, histopathologic type of cancer, degree of cancer progression.

Results: The results have been compared with a peer group who had been diagnosed 20 years earlier.

Bacterial exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The role of lung function in aetiology of exacerbation.

The objective of the study was determination of the most frequent bacterial factors, including Haemophilus parainfluenzae, suspected of causing COPD exacerbation, of the relation between bacterial strains and respiratory system functional status as well as of antibiotic sensitivity of sputum isolated bacteria. The examined group comprised 28 patients treated in the Pulmonary Department of Medical University of Lublin. The subjects fulfilled the criteria of type I COPD bacterial exacerbation.

Microbial etiologies in community acquired pneumonia (CAP).

The objective of the study was determination of bacterial etiologic factors, including antibiotic atypical pathogens, of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults and of sensitivity of isolated strains. The examined group comprised 50 patients with clinical and x-ray image of pneumonia. Patients' expectoration sputum was analyzed.

The role of opportunistic species of Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum in the pathogenesis of CAP (Community Acquired Pneumonia).

The analysis of eight cases of CAP (Community Acquired Pneumonia) was performed. The clinical samples of sputum were obtained from patients at which C. pseudodiphtheriticum strains were isolated in the quantity indicating the etiologic agent of infection.