Introduction: Castleman's disease or angiofollicular lymph hyperplasia is a rare disease with two identified clinical forms. Unicentric or localized form is characterized by isolated growth of lymph nodes, most often in mediastinum, and multicentric form is expressed as systemic disease with spread lymphadenopathy, organomegaly and presence of general symptoms of the disease. Histological types are hyalovascular, plasma-cell and transitive (mixed) cell.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The quality of life is a multidimensional concept, which is best expressed by the subjective well-being. Evaluation of the quality of life is the basis for measuring the well-being, and the determination of factors that determine the quality of life quality is the basis for its improvement.
Objective: To evaluate and assess the determinants of the perceived quality of life of group distinguishing features which characterize demographic and socioeconomic factors.
Introduction: Any research of reproductive health has to encompass the relevant connotations of this complex term. In order to establish relevant multidimensional characteristics, it is necessary to assess intercorrelations of the characteristics most commonly used to describe it.
Objective: Our aim was to describe the characteristics of reproductive health and to establish their significance in describing this term.
Introduction: Reproductive health of women is determined by females' demographic and socio-economic characteristics, their behaviour, and the complex of environmental factors.
Objective: The paper examines the predictive impact of personal and environmental characteristics, health and healthcare characteristics regarding the most important aspects of reproductive health.
Methods: From a sample of 2,718 women, aged 20-49 years, we collected information on various characteristics using a structured questionnaire.