Prevalence of human anelloviruses in Romanian healthy subjects and patients with common pathologies.

Background: Human anelloviruses (TTV, TTMDV and TTMV) are at high prevalence all across the globe, having also a controversial disease-inducing potential. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of anelloviral DNA in the Romanian human population and to investigate the association of infections with common pathologies in Romanian population.

Methods: After informed consent, blood samples were collected from 2000 subjects represented by: clinically healthy individuals (n = 701) and a group of patients with pathologies linked to low grade inflammation or alteration of carbohydrate metabolism (n = 1299).

[So-called biliary lithiasis after vagotomy].

Reconsidering the problem of biliary lithiasis in the patient operated for gastroduodenal ulcers, and carrying out an analysis of 1 200 vagotomized patients, biliary lithiasis was noted in 11 of them. The authors make a review of the pathologic physiology of this association. The fact is stressed that biliary lithiasis following vagotomy is more likely a case of biliary lithiasis that has not been known to exist before surgery and that was not recognized during the surgical intervention.

[Treatment for spontaneous pneumothorax].

The present study refers to 67 cases of spontaneous pneumothorax admitted to intensive care unit. Symptomatic therapy and treatment of the pneumothorax is efficient. Minimal thoracotomy with continuous aspiration drainage indicated in severe pneumothorax and relapses after exsufflation, was considered the basic procedure in the symptomatic treatment.

[Anatomical bases of incomplete vagotomy].

The results are presented, of an intraoperative anatomical study concerning the variable disposition of the vagal nerves in the abdominal section of the oesophagus. This study was carried out in a large number of patients with ulcers in which vagotomy was performed. All the patients were followed and in all periodical controls were made after surgery in view of detecting possible ulcerative relapses.