Clinical and epidemiological evaluation of tuberculosis in Serbia, 1990-2004.

Setting: Republic of Serbia, excluding Kosovo.

Objective: To estimate the clinical and epidemiological pattern of tuberculosis (TB) in Serbia during the period 1990-2004.

Design: A retrospective analysis of clinical and epidemiological data on TB patients registered in annual TB reports.

[Massive hemoptysis as a rare complication in a patient with cystic fibrosis].

A female patient, 28 years old, with massive haemoptysis as a complication of cystic fibrosis, is described. Cystic fibrosis is a systemic disease with common pulmonary manifestations. Chronic inflammatory process causes the proliferation of bronchial arteries, and their erosion is followed by bleeding.

[Pulmonary function in persons with kyphoscoliosis].

Pulmonary function in 25 patients with a severe degree of kyphoscoliosis was studied. Severe restrictive ventilatory insufficiency and hypoxaemic-hypercapnic respiratory failure were discovered. Isolated deformities of the vertebral column were diagnosed in 15 patients while ten patients, apart from diagnosed kyphoscoliosis, had associated chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

[Mycobacteriosis].

Classification of atypical mycobacteria, problems related to their identification, epidemiological, clinical, radiological and pathohistological presentation of mycobacteriosis are given. Up-to-date alternatives for treatment of these patients are also given. Finally, three cases treated at the VII Clinical Ward of the Institute of Pulmonary Diseases and TBC in the course of 1990 are presented.

Sarcoidosis in Yugoslavia.

Although the first case of sarcoidosis in Yugoslavia was described immediately before the World War II, it was not before the 50's and the 60's that the disease started to be more frequently discovered. According to the evidence of pulmologic centres throughout the country, the incidence of sarcoidosis in 1988 was found to be the lowest in Macedonia (0.4 per 100,000 inhabitants).