[Comprehensive management for the comorbidities and pulmonary complications in COPD].

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been recently recognized not only as inflammatory airway disorders, but also as a chronic systemic inflammatory syndrome. The systemic inflammation causes a variety of abnormalities in the patients. In the end, systemic comorbidities including cardiovascular diseases, endocrine diseases, gastrointestinal diseases and psychological disorders are highly prevalent in patients with COPD.

[A case of angiosarcoma of the scalp with severe fluid retention after administering docetaxel].

A 7 3-year-old man with angiosarcoma was treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy, using docetaxel (25mg/m(2) weekly). While the size of the tumor reduced rapidly, fluid retention, considered as an adverse effect of docetaxel, appeared at the cumulative dose of 325mg/m(2). He required chest drainage for prolonged pleural effusion.

[A case of postcardiac injury syndrome with repeated pleuritis after blunt chest trauma].

A 59-year-old man suffered blunt injury to the left chest during a fall in August 2004. He had 5 repeated episodes of back and left chest pain in three years since August 2005. Since these symptoms were accompanied by left pleural effusion and serum inflammatory reaction, the tentative diagnosis was pleuritis.