[Hereditary angioedema in a 16-year-old girl].

The angioedema may be connected with immunological or allergic reactions, rarely appears as a genetically determined hereditary disorder. The cause of hereditary genetically determined angioedema is the defect of complement due to lack or decreased activity of Cl esterase inhibitor with the low serum C4 complement. The acquired angioedema is the most frequently the effect of lymphoproliferative and autoimmunological diseases.

[Infections of Salmonella in children aged 0-36 months--clinical and epidemiological aspects].

In this work we presented a retrospective analysis of Salmonella infections in 163 children aged between 0-36 months. The children were treated in IV Department of Pediatrics at Medical University of Silesia (Poland) in years 1987-1998. We analyzed: clinical course, dependence between age of the patients and the type of Salmonella, number of infections and their seasonal incidence during 12 years of observation.