[3rd International Conference on Preventive Cardiology]
KÖKÉNY Mihály, ÖSTÖR Erika
DECEMBER 29, 1993
Lege Artis Medicinae - 1993;3(12)
KÖKÉNY Mihály, ÖSTÖR Erika
DECEMBER 29, 1993
Lege Artis Medicinae - 1993;3(12)
[After Moscow (1985) and Washington (1989), the Norwegian capital hosted the third international conference on cardiovascular prevention. It is no coincidence that the organisers chose this Scandinavian country, which boasts not only excellent epidemiological studies but also a commitment to health as a government policy.]
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[The significance of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in the treatment of congestive heart failure is outlined. The results of multicenter, randomized trials are summarized confirming the beneficial effect on survival of vasodilator therapy and/or angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in the treatment of patients with congestive heart failure.]
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[The author details the medical consequences of disasters and mass casualty situations. The concept of disaster is definied and compared with that of mass accident. It is pointed out that in principle there are no essential differences between them since both disasters and mass accidents require the application of compromise medicine princliples at the site of the catastrophe and during the course of the hospital treatment. The main point of medical support at the site is the triage based on a numeric system of classification. In hospital treatment it is of great importance to adopt uniform (doctrinarian) principles and practice in order to prevent or decrease complications occurring in almost every extreme situation. Further co-operation of our medical organizations and development of common disaster plans may improve the effectiveness of coping with a possible emergency in our country.]
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[ From 1980 to 1991, 1379 women with abnormal colposcopic and/or cytologic findings were examined at the Department of Gynecological Oncology at the National Institute of Oncology, Budapest. The sensitivity and specificity of these screening tests were studied retrospectively. All women underwent either cervical excision or conisation. Cytological and colposcopical findings were compared with the histological findings. Sensitivity and specificity of cytology were 49% and 77%, retrospectively. The corresponding figures for colposcopy were 88% and 12%, and for cytology and colposcopy together, 96% and 14%. 1. The low sensitivity of cytology suggests that as many as 50% of CIN lesions will be missed if cytology alone is used for screening. This finding probably justifies our screening policy (i. e., colposcopy should be used as a primary tool). 2. We found 194 asymptomatic patients with carcinoma in situ, 40 with microinvasive and 8 with frank invasive carcinoma. This finding emphasizes the importance of cervical cancer screening. 3. To decrease the false positive and negative rates, the introduction of new scientific results into the every day screening practice is urgently needed. 4. Our data suggest the superiority of a colposcopical screening method to a cytological one; however histological examination must be done independently of a screening method if the suspicion of cervical dysplasia arises. ]
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[The last 20-25 years have seen significant advances in the use of medication. Blood levels of drugs can now be measured using available laboratory methods, and many effects can now be accurately measured in addition to general clinical monitoring. This has created the basis for the everyday use of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and a separate discipline, clinical pharmacology.]
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[Atherectomy reduced coronary stenosis 50% or more often (89%) than angioplasty (80%, p<0.001), and the acute increase in vessel diameter was more pronounced (p<0.001). Atherectomy was associated with more early complications (11%) than angioplasty (5%, p<0.001) and hospital costs were also higher ($11 904 vs $10 637, p<0.006). After six months, the restenosis rate was 50% for atherectomy and 57% for angioplasty (p<0.06). However, the probability of infarction or death at six months was higher in the group treated with atherectomy (86%) than after angioplasty (4,6%, p<0,007).]
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Clinical Neuroscience
[The well-known gap between stroke mortality of Eastern and Western European countries may reflect the effect of socioeconomic differences. Such a gap may be present between neighborhoods of different wealth within one city. We set forth to compare age distribution, incidence, case fatality, mortality, and risk factor profile of stroke patients of the poorest (District 8) and wealthiest (District 12) districts of Budapest. We synthesize the results of our former comparative epidemiological investigations focusing on the association of socioeconomic background and features of stroke in two districts of the capital city of Hungary. The “Budapest District 8–12 project” pointed out the younger age of stroke patients of the poorer district, and established that the prevalence of smoking, alcohol-consumption, and untreated hypertension is also higher in District 8. The “Six Years in Two Districts” project involving 4779 patients with a 10-year follow-up revealed higher incidence, case fatality and mortality of stroke in the less wealthy district. The younger patients of the poorer region show higher risk-factor prevalence, die younger and their fatality grows faster during long-term follow-up. The higher prevalence of risk factors and the higher fatality of the younger age groups in the socioeconomically deprived district reflect the higher vulnerability of the population in District 8. The missing link between poverty and stroke outcome seems to be lifestyle risk-factors and lack of adherence to primary preventive efforts. Public health campaigns on stroke prevention should focus on the young generation of socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods. ]
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[Invasive investigations show that in two-thirds of patients the myocardial ischaemia persists without obstructive coronary disease and any other heart conditions (INOCA). The underlying cause may be microvascular dysfunction (CMD) with consecutive microvascular coronary disease (MVD) and microvascular or epicardial vasospastic angina (MVA). The modern practice of clinical cardiology while using the developed non-invasive cardiac imaging permits exact measuring of the coronary flow with its characteristic indices. All of these improve the diagnosing of CMD-induced myocardial ischemia and provide opportunity to determine primary MVD cases. Since the recognition and treatment of MVD is significantly underrepresented in the Hungarian medical care, the primary stable microvascular angina (MVA) is described in detail below with its modern invasive and non-invasive differential diagnosis and treatment, concerning especially its frequency provoked by high blood pressure and female coronary heart diseases. There are highlighted all recommended diagnostic procedures available under domestic conditions.]
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[This study presents the complete history of the Hungarian vaccine production, partly in association with the process of fighting vaccine-preventable infectious diseases, and underlines the fact that every government actively contributed to the age-adjusted mandatory vaccination schedule of the past 140 years. It demonstrates the various achievements from the smallpox lymph production through the launch of diphtheria serum production at Phylaxia and the establishment of the National Public Health Institute (OKI) with its vaccine production and the later institutional transformation of OKI into Humán as economic corporation to its closure. Among all OKI’s vaccine production activities, this study focuses on the production of influenza vaccines, due to its international importance in the 1960s and 1970s. The vaccine production against diphtheria tetanus and pertussis stands out from Humán’s activities, and the tetanus component of this vaccine is still used in the products of a multinational vaccine manufacturer. ]
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[Three decades ago, LAM was launched with the goal of providing scientific information about medicine and its frontiers. From the very beginning, LAM has also concerned a special subject area while connecting medicine with the world of art. In the palette of medical articles, it remained a special feature to this day. The analysis of the history of LAM to date was performed using internationally accepted publication guidelines and scientific databases as a pledge of objectivity. We examined the practice of LAM if it meets the main criteria, the professional expectations of our days, when publishing contents of the traditional printed edition and its electronic version. We explored the visibility of articles in the largest bibliographic and scientific metric databases, and reviewed the LAM's place among the Hungarian professional journals. Our results show that in recent years LAM has gained international reputation despite publishing in Hungarian spoken by a few people. This is due to articles with foreign co-authors as well as references to LAM in articles written exclusively by foreign researchers. The journal is of course full readable in the Hungarian bibliographic databases, and its popularity is among the leading ones. The great virtue of the journal is the wide spectrum of the authors' affiliation, with which they cover almost completely the Hungarian health care institutional system. The special feature of its columns is enhanced by the publication of writings on art, which may increase Hungarian and foreign interest like that of medical articles.]
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