[Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) and the Terms Miliary and Tubercle].

Today Miliary Tuberculosis in Central Europe is a rare disease, quite often with resulting diagnostic uncertainty. The terms "miliary" and "tubercle" are outlined with their up to now accepted historical roots. An analysis of Marcello Malpighi's quite unknown post-mortem reports by the Italian author L.

[Marcello Malpighi (1628 - 1694) and the terms miliary and tubercle. A completion of hitherto existing historical terminology].

Today Miliary Tuberculosis in Central Europe is a rare disease, quite often with resulting diagnostic uncertainty. The terms "miliary" and "tubercle" are outlined with their up to now accepted historical roots. An analysis of Marcello Malpighi's quite unknown post-mortem reports by the Italian author L.

[200 years of bronchitis--from 1808 to 2008].

Because of the still growing importance of airway diseases, it should be worthwhile to remember Charles Badham's coining of the term bronchitis 200 years ago--in 1808. In the two editions of his book he reviewed historical names and concepts of tracheobronchial affections according to humoralism mainly under the topic of catarrh. Using his new term "bronchitis" he classified three forms (Br.

Pulmonary metastasetomy for osteosarcoma: is it justified?

Unlabelled: Lung metastases are found in up to 30% of patients with osteosarcoma. Survival rates up to 45% are possible in interdisciplinary concepts, i.e.

Initial experience with single lead intracardial cardioversion for refractory atrial fibrillation.

Background: Chronic atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia, associated with a substantial morbidity (thromboemboli, worsening left ventricular function). Established therapy for pharmacological refractory AF is high-energy trans-thoracic electric cardioversion (TTCV), but this strategy is ineffective for 10-30% of the patients. The purpose of the present study is to establish the safety and efficacy of low-energy intracardiac cardioversion (ICCV) with a relatively new balloon-guided single-catheter system with dual chamber pacing possibility for this group of patients.

[Fiber bronchoscopy as an aid in placing and monitoring double lumen tubes in thoracic anesthesia].

100 thoracic surgery patients were intubated by means of a left-hand Broncho-Cath PVC Double-Lumen Tube (DLT) and 10 further patients with a right-hand tube. In 76 of the 100 left-hand DLT's safe conventional placement of the tube was successful, oriented exclusively by auscultation findings and positive pressure respiration. However, fibre-optic control showed that only 44 of these tubes were correctly positioned (57.

Infections after pleuro-pulmonary surgery.

The incidence and causes of infectious complications after pleuro-pulmonary surgery occurring in our institution before 1968, from 1968 to 1975, and from 1978 to 1979 are compared. Soft tissue infections occurring in the operative region, in the pleural cavity and in the remaining lung tissue are assessed separately. From these data it is concluded, that infections of soft tissue have markedly decreased from 7 to 2% while secondary wound healing without purulent infection has fallen from 21% to 5%.