[Coronary heart disease with a marked vasospastic component associated with the menstrual cycle and its treatment]. / Koronární nemoc srdecní s výraznou vazospastickou slozkou vázanou na menstruacní cyklus a její resení.

The authors describe the case of a 46-year-old patient with serious manifestations of ischaemic heart disease-repeated myocardial infarctions, malignant arrhythmias, the algic form of angina pectoris, whose complaints were markedly linked to the menstrual cycle. The authors mention also the individual solution, i.e. elimination of ovarian activity by actinotherapy.

[Myocardial infarct in type II diabetes]. / Infarkt myokardu u diabetiku II. typu.

Myocardial infarction is encountered in diabetic patients more frequently and is usually associated with a higher mortality rate, as compared with the normal population. The authors investigated the relationship between myocardial infarction and diabetes in a group of 408 patients with myocardial infarction, incl. 144 (32%) type 2 diabetics most of them treated by diet or PAD. In the group of diabetics with myocardial infarction a higher incidence of hypertension was recorded and more frequent use of nitrates. The incidence of obesity, smoking angina pectoris, a previous infarction with a pain-free course and family-history were comparable in the two groups. Diabetic patients suffered significantly more frequently from non-Q infarction of the heart muscle (p < 0.5) and infarctions of the anterior wall (p < 0.001). The mortality during hospitalization was 24% in the group of diabetics, while it was 17% in non-diabetic patients.

[Isolation of Nocardia asteroides using hemoculture (clinical report)]. / Izolace Nocardia asteroides z hemokultury (sdelení z praxe).

The authors describe the finding of Nocardia asteroides from a haemoculture in a patient with right-sided pneumonia and several predisposing factors (TB, chronic bronchitis, anamnestic hepatitis, chronic hepatopathy, anaemia, ethylism and a neoplasm revealed in the final stage). Early bacteriological diagnosis and aimed antimicrobial therapy led to radical improvement of the very dramatic clinical condition. The authors discuss the possible higher incidence of the infectious agent, which previously was detected only very rarely.

[Treatment of acute pulmonary edema]. / Lécba akutního plicního edému.

The authors give an account of treatment of acute pulmonary oedema. Their account is based on contemporary data in the literature and their own experience. Some aspects of the therapeutic procedures are described in detail. The review should serve as a practical guide for doctors not concerned in particular with the treatment of acute states.