[Factors that affect the medical recuperation and socio-occupational rehabilitation of pulmonary tuberculosis patients (I)].

Investigations were carried out in a group of patients serving as a rehabilitation model, considered the best and the most worth being adopted. The group was made up of 100 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, recorded during the last 5 years, recently stabilized and included in the group II of dispensary care and in the card index "surveillance", who are re-employed and work in various enterprises in the Capital; as regards the solving of these cases, they are at the opposite pole with respect to chronic patients (100 cases), with whom they are continuously put in contrast. The elements with a positive value regarding the most rapid health restoration, as well as the ways of re-employment were studied.

Laparoscopic treatment of tubal pregnancy.

Seventeen tubal pregnancies were treated successfully with a laparoscopic procedure over the past four years. Four different laparoscopic techniques were used: salpingectomy, partial salpingectomy (midtube resection), fimbrial expression, and salpingotomy. "Preventive hemostasis" using vasopressin has made salpingotomy our treatment method of choice.

Guidance for the evaluation, risk assessment and control of chemical embryo-fetotoxins.

The recognition, evaluation, and control of embryotoxins in the workplace are toxicologically and administratively complex and present challenging circumstances to the occupational health professional and to the workplace manager. Accommodating the expectations of society and complying with existing laws and regulations make this complex problem even more difficult. By carefully applying the same toxicological considerations and control measures as are used for other chemicals which present different toxic hazards, exposures of susceptible persons to embryotoxins can be prevented or maintained at safe levels without unnecessary restriction of the opportunity for meaningful employment for any class of persons.

Antiandrogenic effect of spirolactones: mechanism of action.

Spirolactones are aldosterone antagonists which inhibit the binding of aldosterone to the renal mineralocorticoid receptor. These molecules also possess an antiandrogenic effect which could be due, among other possibilities, to a peripheral antagonism of androgens. This hypothesis has been tested in the present study.