Bronchial asthma and obesity is among a group of multietiologic complex diseases which influence each other in their origin, and development. The impact on the patient‘s quality of life and prognosis is significant, health costs included. Because of the increasing prevalence worldwide, there has been an increase in the amount of studies dealing with reciprocal associations between asthma and obesity., Jana Kryštofová, Miloš Jeseňák, Peter Bánovčin, and Literatura 39
The authors present the case of a young woman with newly diagnosed Takayasu’s arteritis. This woman, with arterial hypertension, was investigated for the unspecific symptoms at the beginning. Afterwards, the transthoracic echocardiography showed dysfunction of the left ventricle and the abdominal sonography showed a stenosis of the right renal artery. PET/CT scan showed chronic modification after inflammatory processes on the wall of the thoracic and abdominal aorta. This case report should be instructive to other clinicians and refers to the necessity to remember this rare disease in our country too., Lucie Horáková, Radek Pudil, Zbyněk Hrnčíř, Jaroslav Vižďa, and Literatura 8
Ruptured pregnancy in the rudimentary horn of women who have had a vaginal delivery is rare and unpredictable. However, when undiagnosed, this condition could lead to maternal morbidity and mortality. We report a pregnancy at 19 weeks gestation presented with acute abdomen and hypovolemic shock. She was initially thought to have an intrauterine pregnancy with the provisional diagnosis of a ruptured uterus. Intraoperatively, a ruptured non-communicating right rudimentary horn with ex utero pregnancy was discovered., Che Hasnura Che Hassan, Abdul Kadir Abdul Karim, Nor Azlin Mohamed Ismail, Mohd Hashim Omar, and Literatura 6
The subject of work is the development of Czech health care law in the past 20 years in the context of (1) Czechoslovak and Czech social change, (2) the development of international human rights interpretations related to health. The goal is evaluation of the Czech health care law in the individual developmental stages and their compliance with human rights related to health. Running away from the Czech health care law framework of human rights and its substitution by a positive concept of patients‘ rights is accompanied by efforts to reduce human rights protection mechanisms at the Constitutional Court („euroamendment“ of the Czech Constitution in 2001). Major changes in medical law in relation to human rights brings the current changes in health care reform (2011 - Health Reform I and II. Phase)., Petr Háva, Pavla Mašková, Tereza Teršová, and Literatura
The subject of work is the development of Czech health care law in the past 20 years in the context of (1) Czechoslovak and Czech social change, (2) the development of international human rights interpretations related to health. The goal is evaluation of the Czech health care law in the individual developmental stages and their compliance with human rights related to health. Running away from the Czech health care law framework of human rights and its substitution by a positive concept of patients‘ rights is accompanied by efforts to reduce human rights protection mechanisms at the Constitutional Court („euroamendment“ of the Czech Constitution in 2001). Major changes in medical law in relation to human rights brings the current changes in health care reform (2011 - Health Reform I and II. Phase). and Petr Háva, Pavla Mašková, Tereza Teršová
Nádory hlavy a krku jsou nejlépe řešeny multidisciplinárním postupem. Ve snaze eradikovat jak klinicky zjevný nádor, tak okultní metastázy jsou používány v různých kombinacích chirurgie, radioterapie, chemoterapie a v současné době i v cílené terapii. Účelem tohoto článku je přehlédnout expandující roli nového cíleného přípravku cetuximabu, antagonisty receptoru epidermálního růstového faktoru, a posoudit současný stav údajů o použití této látky v léčbě spinocelulárního karcinomu hlavy a krku., Head and neck cancers are best managed in a multidisciplinary setting. Surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy and, more recently, biologic therapy are often employed in various combinations in an attempt to eradicate both clinically apparent and occult disease. This article aims to review the expanding role of novel targeted agent cetuximab, an epidermal growth factor receptor antagonist, and review the current state of the data on the use of this drug in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma., Zdeněk Mechl, Jana Neuwirthová, and Lit.: 46