[HEAD INJURY DURING PREGNANCY].

No matter how severe is head injury during pregnancy, it can threaten both- the maternal and (or) the fetal life. The risk derives from systemic and cerebral consequences of high intracranial pressure, hypotension, anemia or expanding mass lessions in the cranial cavity. The specific hormonal background of the mother may contribute the better outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

[Splenectomies for Hodgkin's disease--a study of the period 1984-1994].

Explorative laparotomy with ensuing splenectomy in Hodgkin's disease is applied for the first time in the Stanford University in the late 60-ies. Opinions on the pros and cons of the method in terms of number of cases, complications and the like are largely dissenting. The analysis covers 153 patients with Hodgkin's disease subjected to splenectomy.

Percentile reference values of lipid risk factors of ischaemic heart disease: cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and triglycerides in individuals aged 20 to 60 years in Plovdiv region.

1408 men and 1069 women aged 20 to 60 years selected at random from the Plovdiv region were studied during an epidemiological screening. Statistical analysis of the data was carried out using a SPSS/PC+ program. The percentiles (reference values and intervals) of the lipid risk factors were determined.

Percentile reference values of arterial blood pressure for individuals aged 20 to 60 years from Plovdiv region.

In the course of an epidemiological screening of a Plovdiv region contingent we determined the percentiles of arterial blood pressure of 1458 men and 1146 women (aged 20 to 60 years) selected at random using the SPSS/PC+ program. The derived values for the 75th percentile of the systolic arterial blood pressure for men over 30 years of age and for women aged over 35 years form a group of high-normal systolic arterial blood pressure; for men over 35 years and women over 40 years a first class arterial hypertension is formed at the 75th percentile (USA, 1995). The reference values of the 75th and 90th percentiles of the systolic and diastolic arterial blood pressure rise step-like in men and steeply in women.

[Case report of Gaucher's disease].

The case of a 42 years old man suffering from Gaucher's disease is reported. The primary diagnosis was liver cirrhosis based on echographic and scintigraphic examinations. The following signs were found: thrombocytopenia, slight hemolysis, shortened life of the erythrocytes with considerable sequestration in the spleen, abnormal flocculation tests, increased acid phosphatase.

[So-called immunoglobulin-producing lymphoma with a case presentation and the production of monoclonal immunoglobulin M].

The authors discuss the B-cellular lymphomas, producing various kinds of monoclonal paraproteins as well as parts of them--light or heavy chains. A case of a patient with lymphoplasmocytic malignant lymphoma, producing monoclonal IgM in pentamer form mainly, as well as in Valdenström disease but without the symptoms characteristic for it--hyperviscosity and hemorrhagic diathesis, is described. The disease has been histologically, cytologically and electron microscopically diagnosed.