[Results of continuous treatment (3 years) with disodium cromoglycate of patients with bronchial asthma and spastic bronchitis].

A group including 36 patients with bronchial asthma and 8 with spastic bronchitis have been treated with disodium cromoglycate for a period of 3 years starting with July 1-st, 1978. Eight of these patients also had allergic rhinitis, and in these ones administration of the treatment was also made by nasal application. Partial results have been published after 3 and 18 months of treatment.

[Disodium cromoglycate treatment of bronchial asthma and spastic bronchitis (preliminiary results)].

After a short review of the mode of action of sodium chromoglycate, the results are presented, of the treatment carried out over a three months period in a group of 31 patients of which 23 had bronchial asthma and 8 had spastic bronchitis. In 19 cases the doses of steroids that the patients were receiving were either diminished or supressed, in 14 cases the doses of broncho-dilating drugs were diminished or supressed and in 15 cases the results of the respiratory function tests were improved or much improved. A synthetic evaluation of the clinical and laboratory results showed that in 3/4 of the cases (74.

[Correlations between culture methods, double diffusion and immunofluorescence in the laboratory diagnosis of mycoses (candidiasis and aspergillosis)].

Of a total of 1950 patients with various pneumologic affections 115 cases were selected, on the basis of positive mycologic results on examination of the bronchial aspirate. In these patients immunodiffusion and immunofluorescence serological tests were carried out. Confrontation with the clinical and histopathologic diagnosis showed that the simultaneous use of mycological studies (of the bronchial aspirate) and of complex serologic investigations (immunodiffusion, immunofluorescence) allow to make a correcs and aspergilloses.