[Traditional healers in the ancient Egypt]
GYŐRY Hedvig
JANUARY 20, 2001
Lege Artis Medicinae - 2001;11(01)
GYŐRY Hedvig
JANUARY 20, 2001
Lege Artis Medicinae - 2001;11(01)
Lege Artis Medicinae
Lege Artis Medicinae
[Imaging is important in the evaluation of tumour detection, staging to determine the response to therapy, to follow the patient to find an early recurrent tumour. The ability to assess cancer spread has been revolutionized by advances of digital imaging modalities, such as digital ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI is the method of choice for detecting and evaluating brain, spine, head and neck and musculoskeletal tumours, but it is complementary in the investigation of the thorax. US and CT remains the primary test for imaging the abdomen, while MRI plays a subsidiary role as a problem solving technique. In the evaluation of focal liver disease numerous prior reports have documented a superior performance of MRI compared to CT and US in the detection of primary and metastatic liver tumours. MRI is gaining more and more importance in imaging of the pelvis. Breast MRI is increasingly used as an adjunct to conventional imaging modalities. Several recent developments in MRI have altered the role of this imaging, and it is often the preferred choice among diagnostic tools for the detection and characterization of tumour cases.]
Lege Artis Medicinae
Lege Artis Medicinae
Lege Artis Medicinae
[Fibromyalgia is a chronic, non-inflammatory pain syndrome characterised by diffuse muscle pain and increased tenderness of specific tender points. The exact cause or pathomechanism of the disease is unknown. In the background, nociception and the pain processing pathways of the central nervous system are suspected as dysfunctional. The disease occurs primarily in middle-aged women. Occurence of fibromyalgia is between 1-4%, increasing up to 20% in a rheumatology clinic. In Canada, the cost of treatment of fibromyalgia was 350 million $ in 1993. Unfortunately, in Hungary no similar data is available. It is frequently joined by different vegetative and functional symptoms. One characteristic feature is insomnia, causing typical morning fatigue in patients. Effective therapy has yet to be found, although successful treatment may be achieved with drug therapy (amitryptilin), psychotherapy and aerobics with supplemental electro- and hydrotherapy. Patient education and involvement is also important for good therapeutic results and for the ability to return to work as soon as possible.]
Lege Artis Medicinae
[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.]
Lege Artis Medicinae
[Hungarian professional periodicals started quite late in European context. Their publishing, editing and editorial philosophy were equally influenced by specific historical and political situations. Certain breaking points of history resulted in termination of professional journals (War of Independence 1848-1849, First and Second World Wars), however there were periods, which instigated the progress of sciences and founding of new scientific journals. Both trends were apparent in years after the fall of former Hungarian regime in 1990. The structure of book and journal publishing has changed substantially, some publishers fell “victim” others started successfully as well. The latters include the then-established publishing house Literatura Medica and its own scientific journal, Lege Artis Medicinae (according to its subtitle: New Hungarian Medical Herald) issued first in 1990. Its appearance enhanced significantly the medical press market. Its scientific publications compete with articles of the well-established domestic medical journals however its philosophy set brand-new trends on the market. Concerning the medical community, it takes on its problems and provides a forum for them. These problems are emerging questions in health care, economy and prevention, in close interrelation with system of public health institutions, infrastructure and situation of those providing individual health services. In all of them, Lege Artis Medicinae follows consequently the ideas of traditional social medicine.]
Clinical Oncology
[The objective assessment of the changes in the tumor burden along with cancer therapy has essential importance. Recently, the quantitative evaluation of the radiological tumor response was undergone several changes. For conventional chemotherapy of solid tumors the standard procedure has been RECIST since 2000. The targeted therapies trigger other pathophysiological changes in the cells than the cytotoxic agents, accordingly the morphological changes show a new picture. Therefore the targeted therapies require a new evaluation system, that takes into consideration not only the tumor size, but other changes as well, the changes of attenuation that corresponds with the proportion of the viable cells. In case of the targeted therapies in substantial clinical was experienced even without signifi cant morphological changes in the tumour size. As a consequence, the traditional, size-based criteria system can underestimate the effi ciency of the new types of treatments. To eliminate this problem new evaluation systems were created taking the tumortypes and treatment protocolls into consideration. The estimation of the early tumor response to targeted therapy also has high importance. In assessment of the response functional imaging methods are used more frequently. The role of PET has already been defi ned in numerous tumortypes, however the determination of the position of some promising functional examinations still require further studies.]
Hypertension and nephrology
[As the cardiovascular risk influences the quality and intensity of blood pressure lowering therapy, the goal blood pressure values and the frequency of medical control of hypertensive patients, as well as global risk assessment has an important role in the management of hypertension. In the last couple of years many data have been accumulated showing the poor prognostic value of traditional cardiovascular risk factors. This is the reason why recent Hungarian and international guidelines on the management of hypertension advise the screening for subclinical organ damage. Our goal was to summarize the importance of subclinical organ damage by discussing recently published literature on this topic. An overview has been made on the markers of vascular subclinical damage, like carotid atherosclerosis proved with carotid ultrasonography, peripheral arterial disease assessed with ankle-brachial pressure index measurements and vascular rigidity defined with pulse wave velocity measurements. The prognostic values of myocardial hypertrophy assessed with ECG and/or echocardiography and renal damage proved with decreased estimated glomerular filtration rate and proteinuria are also discussed. Summing up what has been said so far, the assessment of subclinical organ damage has a role in cardiovascular risk prediction, however more randomized and prospective studies have to be performed to define the most suitable (i.e. the most reliable and the most cost-effective) markers for this purpose.]
Hypertension and nephrology
[Changes in hypertension guidelines in the past years have affected the clinical thinking about β-blockers. Authors reviewed the development of β-blockers emphasizing the differences across various active pharmaceutical agents. Different hemodynamic and metabolic effects are being discussed in details for the third ge - neration vasodilatator carvedilol. Carvedilol has no effect on cardiac output but decreases peripheral vascular resistance which results in lower blood pressure values. However, carvedilol, opposite to unfavorable effects of traditional β-blockers, has a neutral impact on both carbohydrate and lipid metabolisms. Its more advanced cardiac effects include decreased left ventricular hypertrophy and increased coronary flow reserve. Vasodilatator type β-blockers (carvedilol, nebivolol) are indicated in the combi - nation treatment of hypertension, especially when the patient has heart failure, coronary disease or suffered from a previous heart attack.]
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