[Trimetazidine therapy in atrio-cochlear disturbances of vascular origin]. / Trimetazydyna w leczeniu zaburzen przedsionkowo-slimakowych pochodzenia naczyniowego.

Therapeutic effects of TMZ treatment were evaluated in 31 patients with atrio-cochlear disorders caused by an insufficiency of cerebral circulation. It was found that the results of vestibular or cochlear disorders remission was dependent on the time interval between the onset of symptoms and the beginning of trimetazidine therapy. The best results were also found in patients suffering from atrio-cochlear disorders lasting not longer than two years and due to arterial hypertension or cerebral basilar artery insufficiency.

[A case of giant size lipoma of the submental region]. / Przypadek tluszczaka okolicy podbródkowej o znacznych rozmiarach.

The authors described a case of giant size tumor of the submental region in a 53 year old patient. The very large tumor (fig. 1, 2, 3) was treated by total extirpation. Histological investigation had shown structure of lipoma.

[Septal fascioplasty as the method of surgical treatment of nose bleeding in patients with Rendu-Osler-Weber disease]. / Fascioplastyka jako metoda zabiegowego leczenia krwawien z nosa w przebiegu choroby Rendu-Oslera-Webera.

The authors describe an own method of surgical treatment of nosebleed caused by Rendu-Osler-Weber's disease. For closure of nasal septal defects we used free graft of fascia lata. In five patients treated by our method, the transplantation ended successful; during the several weeks after operations the fascia lata was covered with epithelium growing from the surrounding tissues. Control examinations did not demonstrate recurrences. In two patients our method was unsuccessful.

[Otorhinolaryngologic problems of Wegener's granulomatosis of three months duration]. / "Problemy oto-ryno-laryngologiczne w ziarniniakowatosci Wegenera o trzymiesiecznym przebiegu".

A case of Wegener's granulomatosis in a 30 years old female was described. The authors have presented the diagnostic difficulties and treatment this rare disease.

[Evaluation of frequency of recurrence in malignant head and neck neoplasms in the years 1980-1990]. / Ocena czestosci wystepowania wznów w nowotworach zlosliwych glowy i szyi w latach 1980-1990.

During the years 1980-1990 in the Otolaryngological Department of the Silesian Medical Academy in Katowice 452 patients with malignant neoplasms of the head and neck were treated. 154 (35%) patients treated by radiotherapy. 140 (30%) were operated, 133 (29%) were treated by both methods and 25 (6%) were treated symptomatically. 139 (30%) out of them have had the recurrencies after the treatment. The authors made the analysis of frequency of recurrencies in years 1980-86 in comparison with period 1987-90. The statistically significant increase of frequency of recurrencies in years 1987-1990 was found.

[Diagnosis and treatment of tumors of the infra-temporal fossa]. / Diagnostyka i leczenie guzów dolu podskroniowego.

Authors present ten cases of tumors of the infratemporal fossa that have different etiology being treated by operation. Six of the patients died, four of them are alive. Authors describe diagnostical principles of these types of tumors.

Collagen content in the heart of patients operated on for valvular heart disease caused mainly by infective endocarditis.

Collagen from tissues of the heart valve, the wall of the left auricle, palatine tonsils and periodontium was studied. The material was taken during surgical procedures, performed for therapeutic reasons, in patients with acquired valvular heart disease (avhd) and congenital heart disease. The obtained results pertain to the content of total collagen as well as to its soluble and insoluble fractions. An increase of the soluble collagen fraction, as compared to the insoluble one, provides support for collagen degradation, and this fact has prompted the authors to conclude that collagen plays a part in the etiopathogenesis of a.v.h.d. The authors suggest that estimation of collagen metabolites, and the amount of soluble collagen in tissues, and particularly in palatine tonsils, may be helpful in identifying persons susceptible to a.v.h.d.