Multiple endobronchial chondromatous hamartoma in a child.

The multiple endobronchial chondromatous hamartoma is a very rare tumour. The authors report a case of a 5-year-old girl treated by pneumonectomy.

[The motivation for deciding on keeping or terminating a pregnancy. II. The socioeconomic factors, the self-assessment of health status and the attitude towards the future]. / Kum vuprosa za motivatsiia na reshenieto za zapazvane ili prekusvane na bremennostta. II. Sotsialno-ikonomicheski faktori, samootsenka na zdravoslovnoto sustoianie, otnoshenie kum budeshteto.

Subject of investigation are peculiarities of emotional and motivational sphere of women in a fertile age (women recently confined or terminating pregnancy by wish). They are divided according to their attitude towards real pregnancy. Results of investigation show that double-pole attitude towards pregnancy is in direct dependence on the employment, on the security of working place. Marriage and its duration are mutually connected with the negative attitude toward pregnancy. Pregnancy becomes unwished for when the number of children desired coincides with the real one. There is a considerable interconnection between pessimistic expectations and attitude toward pregnancy in the both groups (p < 0.05). As a whole 72 per cent of tested persons would like to have two children without special preferences regarding their sex. According to the data made out of the investigation desired number of children is connected with the satisfaction from living conditions, the woman's age and marriage duration, with the professional realization and faith in future. The authors consider that towards every pregnancy an individual approach is necessary with careful search and investigation of factors which define woman's attitude toward pregnancy.

[The motivation for deciding to preserve or to terminate a pregnancy]. / Kum vuprosa za motivatsiiata na reshenieto za zapazvane ili prekusvane na bremennostta.

With 68 women recently confined and terminating pregnancy by wish a study was made about anxiety in its two varieties: (i) as a mental condition connected with an actual and significant for the person life situation and (ii) as a personal feature--a way of perception and interpretation of the events as threatening. Anxiety's level is measured by a psychological test adapted to the Bulgarian conditions. The high average estimation of anxiety shows that termination of pregnancy is suffered as a stress. Subject to anxiety are also family's incomes when investigating both groups--women recently confined and women going to have an abortion. Level of anxiety of women recently confined is connected with the attitude towards future which definitely bothers 67.6 per cent of them. Analysis of indices shows that anxiety in connection with the decision for keeping or terminating of pregnancy as well as with the expected future after confinement is subject to many factors. Data interpretation confirms the well-known thesis that reproductive health protection is not only of a medical and biological but of very wide interdisciplinary interest when the woman is on the brink of the important for her personally and finally for the society as well decision pro and con real pregnancy.

The alveolar lining film in experimental pulmonary collapse.

Obstructive pulmonary collapse was produced by ligation of lobar bronchus in 41 healthy dogs. The atelectatic lung was examined electronmicroscopically by means of vapour fixation, ruthenium red procedure and tricomplex flocculation. The equilibration stability index of Pattle was determined and compared to the electromicroscopic findings. The experimentally produced obstructive pulmonary collapse was a mechanical phenomenon which secondarily caused qualitative changes in the production of the alveolar lining layer.