Does L-thyroxine treatment downregulate EGF receptor expression in endemic non-toxic nodular goitre?

Bidirectional inferior vena cava-pulmonary artery shunt: can it be an alternative for older patients presenting single ventricle heart disease in the third world countries?

Pulmonary abscesses – aetiology and treatment. Ten-year experience of the Department of General and Thoracic Surgery in Lodz, Poland

Introduction: Primary lung abscess is a disease developing due to aspiration or embolization of the infected material from the lung tissue or on the basis of other diseases of different aetiology (secondary abscess). In...

Glucose metabolism in conventionally treated patients with b-thalassaemia major assessed with oral glucose tolerance test

The lung function in operated acquired mitral and aortic valve diseases without left ventricular failure – preliminary observations before operation

Introduction: The study has been designed to evaluate the influence of the operations on cardio-pulmonary by-pass, particulary with systemic normothermia and cold crystalloid cardioplegia on the function of heart and l...