Application of clenbuterol in the treatment of urinary incontinence.

The treatment of urinary incontinence represents an important medico-social problem, notwithstanding the offered 90 products of treatment. The authors summarice their experience on the treatment of urinary incontinence with clenbuterol for the period 1988-1997. During this period total of 335 patients (163 women and 72 men), aged between 30 and 73 were treated.

Comparison of four drugs for local treatment of burn wounds.

Effective local treatment is very important in preventing wound infection and its generalization and ensuring successful skin grafting. The aim of our study is to compare the activity of four topical agents [deflamol (20 patients), polyvidone-iodine (21 patients), flammazine (silver sulphadiazine--SSD) (28 patients) and flammacerium (SSD with cerium nitrate) (five patients)] for treatment of patients with burns by confirming our clinical observations of their efficacy with comparative bacteriological investigations. The final estimation of our results showed the undoubted priority of flammazine and flammacerium over deflamol and polyvidone-iodine, as the treatment of all the patients with these two drugs gave very good and good results, respectively.

Staphylococcal infections in the Sofia Burn Centre, Bulgaria.

This study analysed staphylococcal infections in the Sofia Burns Centre in order to estimate their frequency, features and role in burns. For an 8-year period (1987-94) the bacterial aetiology of wound infections and bacteraemia in burned patients was studied. The prevalence of staphylococci in both wound exudation (31.

Analysis of bacteriuria in patients with burns.

A detailed analysis of bacteriuria in 148 aged patients with burns was made for a period of 2 years (1991-92), in order to determine the incidence of the urine infections they sustained, the sources and mechanisms of the infections and the impact on the course and outcome of the primary disease. Urine infection was found in 7.6 per cent (46 patients) of all patients treated for burns during the study period; 39.

Beta-haemolytic streptococcal infections in burned patients.

Colonization of burn wounds by beta-haemolytic streptococci can lead to the loss of autografts. The present study investigated the beta-haemolytic streptococcal infections in burned patients treated in the Burns Centre of the Emergency Medical Institute 'N. I.