Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte, Monocyte-to-Lymphocyte and Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratios in Relation to Clinical Parameters and Smoking Status in Patients with Graves' Orbitopathy-Novel Insight into Old Tests.

Graves' orbitopathy (GO) is an autoimmune disease with a chronic inflammatory background. Smoking behavior is the main environmental factor responsible for the transition of this major extra thyroidal manifestation of Graves' disease (GD) from the subclinical to the overt form. Complete blood count-derived parameters are suggested to be novel inflammatory indices.

Results of rehabilitation in patients after subarachnoid haemorrhage from ruptured intracranial aneurysm and after surgical treatment.

Background And Purpose: Non-traumatic, or spontaneous subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is responsible for 5-7% of strokes. In Podkarpackie voivodeship, 217 patients were hospitalized in 2003 with spontaneous SAH. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between the results of rehabilitation carried out in patients after surgical treatment of SAH estimated on the Brunnström, Barthel, and Rankin scales and patients' initial condition measured by means of the Hunt-Hess Scale.

[Stroke in young woman in the first day after delivery].

Strokes among young people are not only the most threatening complications of the cerebrovascular diseases, but they also lead to considerable disability and society' dependency. Among patients under 40 years old heart diseases constitute about 18% causes of ischaemic strokes. Other causes of strokes are: artery wall dissection, blood clotting disturbances, birth control pills, stimulants (alcohol abuse, cigarettes, narcotics), vascular immunological diseases.