Using therapeutic letters in group schematherapy.

Objective: This article focuses on utilizing therapeutic letters within group schema therapy-an innovative therapeutic approach that integrates elements from various therapeutic disciplines. The primary aim is to explore how therapeutic letters can enhance the therapeutic process and support the treatment of patients.

Methods: To achieve this objective, we conducted a narrative literature review centred on schema therapy and using therapeutic letters as a therapeutic strategy.

The use of imagery in group schema therapy.

This article describes using imagery approaches during group schema therapy (GST). Imagery approaches are an important tool for identifying and changing maladaptive schema modes and early maladaptive schemas. It summarises the theoretical background of the group imagery method and practical case vignettes.

Synthesis, structure, and in vitro antitumor activity of some glycoside derivatives of ferrocenyl-chalcones and ferrocenyl-pyrazolines.

Some new glycosides of 3-ferrocenyl-1-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)-prop-2-en-1-one were prepared and transformed into the corresponding pyrazoline and pyrazole derivatives. Using methyl-hydrazine, formation of regioisomers was observed. DDQ was found to be a mild and efficient reagent for the pyrazoline-pyrazole dehydroaromatization process.

Germicidal ultraviolet irradiation in air conditioning systems: effect on office worker health and wellbeing: a pilot study.

Objectives: The indoor environment of modern office buildings represents a new ecosystem that has been created totally by humans. Bacteria and fungi may contaminate this indoor environment, including the ventilation systems themselves, which in turn may result in adverse health effects. The objectives of this study were to test whether installation and operation of germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) lights in central ventilation systems would be feasible, without adverse effects, undetected by building occupants, and effective in eliminating microbial contamination.

Effect of a new ventilation system on health and well-being of office workers.

Sick building syndrome is the term given to a heterogeneous constellation of symptoms that affects workers in modern mechanically ventilated office buildings. Although the cause is unknown, there is evidence that the local environment of the work station is an important determinant of symptoms. In this study, investigators examined the effect of a new, individually controlled ventilation system on workers' symptoms.

Aeroallergens and work-related respiratory symptoms among office workers.

Objective: We sought to determine the association between office workers' respiratory tract symptoms and immediate skin test reactions with exposure to fungal and house dust mite aeroallergens at their work sites.

Methods: An initial prevalence survey was conducted among 1102 full-time workers in six mechanically ventilated, air-conditioned, nonindustrial buildings in downtown Montreal. Detailed environmental measures of 214 subjects' work sites were determined.

Tuberculosis infection among health care workers in Montreal.

We conducted a cross-sectional survey to estimate the prevalence of tuberculosis infection among health care workers at two downtown Montreal hospitals. Participants completed questionnaires, then underwent two-step tuberculin testing. Records of previous tuberculin tests and BCG vaccinations were reviewed.

Measuring ventilation of patient care areas in hospitals. Description of a new protocol.

It has been recommended that ventilation of health care facilities should be monitored regularly to reduce the risk of nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis. We developed a simple method to measure air-change rates and direction of airflow in patient care areas. Pure carbon dioxide (CO2) was released at 13.

[The use of a somatostatin analog (Sandostatin) in percutaneous drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts].

The inflammatory pancreatic diseases are usually hardly governable; special problems are arosen with the treatment of pancreatic fluid collections. The focal pericystic pancreatitis, the reactive inflammation developing in the course of the injury of the gland as well as draining pancreatic duct filling the cyst up may result in pitfalls. Thus subcutaneous administration of Sandostatin was added to the usual therapeutic regimen in 12 patients.

[Bilateral neonatal adrenal hemorrhage associated with hypoadrenalism].

A newborn is described, who was born in term with 3250 g weight, after intrauterine hypoxia. She was born with vacuum extraction, and suffered from birth trauma and intrauterine infection. At age of one day manifested an eclampsia, which was hardly diminishable.

[Gluing of sterile abdominal benign cyst walls with tissue adhesives (Tissucol) (preliminary report)].

The authors, endeavouring to stick the walls of percutaneously emptied cysts together had applied the two-component Tissucol fibrin glue in the treatment of abdominal and thoracic cysts. Their ten cases, however, may be considered only as preliminary experiences. It seems that the method can be recommended for an attempt to cease these formations in a fast and simple way.

[Ultrasound-guided percutaneous external catheterization-drainage of pancreas-related fluid collections].

The authors have extended the diagnostics indispensable in drainage of pancreatic fluid collections by intracavitary invasive methods. In five patients exfoliative cytology, in to patients target biopsy and in other two septotomy were performed. Intracavitary invasive diagnostic and therapeutic methods may be useful complementary tools with the traditional technique.

[Visible venous bloodflow in real-time abdominal sonography, possibly a sign of hepatitis B virus-induced, compensated immune hemolysis].

In 15 patients examined for the suspicion of hepatobiliary disease the venous blood flow was visible by the permanent circulation of soft particles in both the systemic and the portal veins with abdominal real-time ultrasonography. In order to clarify the background of the phenomenon there were extended laboratory examinations carried out. In the course of them the infectedness of the patients with Hepatitis-B virus, immune haemolysis and the disorder of the cellular immunity could be demonstrated.

[Ultrasound-guided percutaneous antegrade wirsungography in chronic calcifying pancreatitis].

Dilated pancreatic duct was found by ultrasonography in a patient in association with the characteristic sonographic features of chronic calcifying pancreatitis. Endoscopic retrograde pancreatography showed an obstruction of the Wirsung's duct 3 cm far from the papilla of Vater. Further parts of the duct could not be opacified by this manner.