[The furosemide test in diagnosis of the cause of bronchial obstruction].

The authors studied the rate of relief in cases of moderate, reversible airway obstruction after Furosemide administration. They examined 25 patients with bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive bronchitis (mean age 49 years). They found out that intravenous administration of Furosemide to patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis has a significant bronchodilating effect.

[Pulmonary tuberculosis 1994-1998 at the Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Disease Clinic of Comenius University Medical School Hospital in Bratislava].

The authors present the incidence of new cases of tuberculosis of the lungs treated at the Clinic of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in the years 1994-1998. This study evaluates the clinical forms of tuberculosis, rate of debacillisation, age stratification and the incidence of diseases associated with severe tuberculosis.