ABSTRACT
The sampling of270 out-patients was examined to detect principal clinical symptoms under infection of bloodstream. The principal clinical symptoms the form of complaints were collected using specially developed questionnaire. The patients mentioned most frequently low-grade fever, shivering, furuncles of skin, unstable stool (diarrhea or constipation), diseases of upper respiratory ways. The microbiological diagnostic of infection of bloodstream included microscopy and inoculation of leukocyte layer of blood sample. At microscopy of blood smears microorganisms were detected in 98.5% of cases. The positive findings were presented by associations of various morphological forms in 82.6% of cases. The hemoculture was obtained from 55.2% of patients and characterized by polymicrobility in 35.7% of cases. The greatest number of hemoculture were obtained from patients with low-grade fever and shivering (53.4%), furuncles (55.8%), unstable stool (53.6%), diseases of upper respiratory ways (53.8%) that substantiate presence of infection of bloodstream.
Subject(s)
Diarrhea/microbiology , Fever/microbiology , Infections/blood , Infections/microbiology , Adult , Diarrhea/blood , Feces/microbiology , Female , Fever/blood , Fever/complications , Fever/pathology , Humans , Infections/complications , Infections/pathology , Leukocytes/microbiology , Leukocytes/pathology , Male , Middle Aged , Outpatients , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
The effectiveness of photodynamic therapy was studied in 20 patients with different stages of lung cancer. We used the photosensitizer--PHOTOHEM and gold vapor laser (Auran). Photodynamic therapy was combined with high-energy laser photodestruction of tumors in 7 patients. In late (IIIb and IV) cancers the application of photodynamic therapy has significantly reduced the tumor tissue of bronchial obstruction in 9 out of 12 (75%) patients with improvement of the respiratory function, disappearance of atelectases. Photodynamic therapy was less effective in bronchoscopic signs of infiltrative tumor growth, typical for its peribronchial form. In the early stages of cancer the application of photodynamic therapy allowed complete removal of the tumor. However, 2 out of 8 patients showed signs of residual tumor growth within 1-3 months which disappeared due to repeated treatments with photodynamic therapy.
