An Acanthamoeba sp. containing two phylogenetically different bacterial endosymbionts.

Acanthamoebae are ubiquitous free-living amoebae and important predators of microbial communities. They frequently contain obligate intracellular bacterial symbionts, which show a worldwide distribution. All Acanthamoeba spp.

[Our procedure with patients with spontaneous pneumothorax].

Experience hitherto accumulated with the treatment of spontaneous hemopneumothorax (SHPT) is shared. The successful treatment of the condition is largely dependent on the promptly made diagnosis and hemorrhage control. Four patients are subjected to emergency thoracotomy, two are operated according to routinely planned surgery, and the remainder are treated by effecting closed pleural drainage following trocar thoracentesis.

[Acute abdominal complications after thoracic-pulmonary operations].

Serious abdominal complications occurring after chest and lung operations are discussed. The most common abdominal complications include acute dilatation of the stomach, paralytic ileus, gastrointestinal tract hemorrhage, as well as perforations of hollow abdominal organs. An interesting case presenting perforation of the small intestine after lung resection for pulmonary carcinoma is reported.