AUFBAU UND INBETRIEBNAHME EINER 20-L-EXPLOSIONSAPPARATUR

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Konzentrationen der Androgene fertiler Frauen zwischen dem 20. und 45. Lebensjahr in Abh��ngigkeit vom Alter und Zyklustag

Magdeburg, Univ., Med. Fak., Diss., 2015

Tratamento ecl��tico da lepra: 20 anos de experi��ncia

The author gives the clinical records of 20 patients, 14 of which were treated during 17 months, and the rest much less. The method used for treatment was the ecclectical �� preferred by the A. since many years ��, in which he associates electricity with minor surgery, chaulmestrol (pure or with 0.5 p. c. iodine or 4 p. c. creosote) and other auxilliary curative agents. The chaulmoogra derivatives were used daily as nostrils tamponage (2 p.c. mentholated or thymolated ester), periodically by injections inside the enlarged lymph nodes and nerve abscesses, and twice weekly by subcutaneous infiltrations (MUIR method) 5 c.c. each, and chaulmoogra soap tablets per os. The galvanocauterisation session was once per week, on active leprotic lesions, followed by painting with 30 p. c. trichloracetic acid solution. All 20 patients were bacilliferous before treatment, and became stronger positive after some months treatment. At the end 14 negativated and 6 remained positive and sometimes bacilli being very scanty. 16 out of 20 gave interesting serological reactions, viz.: Wassermann, Stern, Kahn. Rubino, Witebsky and Gat�� (Formol-gel) positive in 5; Stern, Rubino. Witebsky and Gat�� positive and Wassermann and Kahn negative in 2; Stern. Kahn, Witebsky and Gat�� positive and Wassermann anticomplementary in 1; Wassermann. Stern, Kahn, Rubino and Gat�� negative in 1. in the beginning, and a few months later Stern. Witebsky and Gat�� becoming positive; Stern. Rubino. Witebsky and Gat�� positive and anticomplementary W. in 1; Stern, Witebsky and Gat�� positive and Wassermann. Kahn and Rubino negative in 1; Witebsky and Gat�� positive and Wassermann, Stern, Kahn and Rubino negative in 1; Witebsky 3 times anticomplemantary and strongly positive Gat�� in 1; Wassermann and Gat�� positive in 1; Stern and Rubino positive in 1 and Stern test negative in one. In 7 cases high Formol-gel were associated with a high sedimentation index. Many cases had very high S.I. being a false measure of the severity of the disease; others remained very high notwithstanding the great improvement of the disease. All patients with more than 12 months treatment became practically symptom free. Lepra reaction amongst them was rare and always started by embolic rash, being controlled by destruction of such skin lesions by galvanocauterisation. In a few cases the lepromata infiltrated with "Subintrol" (a 3 p. c. special chaulmoogra soap prepared by Dr. ASTROGILDO MACHADO) were completely destroyd and never relapsed. In October 1946 Dr. ERNEST MUIR saw here a few cases treated by the author's method and suggested the combination of Diasone with galvanocauterisation which is being done now with satifactory results. The second part of this paper, reporting many leprosy cases treated by the so-called ecclectical method, which are symptom free and negativated since five to ten years, will be published as soon as the sulfone-therapy be summarised in some reliable scientific report to be compared with.

Evoluci��n de las variedades de arroz cultivadas en el Delta del Ebro durante los ��ltimos 20 a��os

A mediados del siglo XIX con la construcci��n del Canal de la Derecha del Ebro se expande el cultivo del arroz al hemidelta derecho y no llega hasta el 1912 al hemidelta izquierdo cuando se inaugur�� el Canal de la Izquierda. En este momento el delta del Ebro lleg�� a ser la segunda zona estatal de producci��n de arroz, por detr��s de la tradicional zona valenciana. La fuerza que tom�� este cultivo, por ser el que se adaptaba mejor a las condiciones deltaicas fue mejorado mucho despu��s con la mecanizaci��n y la investigaci��n qu��mica a nivel de insecticidas, herbicidas y fertilizantes que sobre el 1970 dio un empuj��n a la econom��a i a la producci��n de este cultivo (Ribas,1991). Hoy en d��a el cultivo del arroz al Delta del Ebro es la actividad predominante, ocupando aproximadamente el 80 % de la superficie agraria ��til (Bartual, 1992). Las variedades de arroz cultivadas han ido variando en los ��ltimos a��os, mediante una gradual renovaci��n de las m��s antiguas, en funci��n de las mejores caracter��sticas. Las nuevas variedades ofrecen mejores rendimientos, una mayor resistencia a plagas y enfermedades, altura m��s baja (mayor resistencia al ���encamado���), mejor calidad de grano o bien una mayor producci��n (Franquet et al., 2004). La evoluci��n de las variedades cultivadas al delta durante estos ��ltimos 20 a��os es lo que pretende dar a conocer este art��culo, ya que m��s de 70 variedades han sido cultivadas en el Delta del Ebro y la informaci��n sobre este tema es casi inexistente.

Qualit��s psychom��triques de la version fran��aise de la TAS-20 et pr��valence de l'alexithymie chez 264 adolescents tout-venant [The 20-item Toronto alexithymia scale: structural validity, internal consistency and prevalence of alexithymia in a Swiss adolescent sample]

L'objectif de cette ��tude est d'examiner la structure factorielle et la consistance interne de la TAS-20 sur un ��chantillon d'adolescents (n = 264), ainsi que de d��crire la distribution des caract��ristiques alexithymiques dans cet ��chantillon. La structure �� trois facteurs de la TAS-20 a ��t�� confirm��e par notre analyse factorielle confirmatoire. La consistance interne, mesur��e �� l'aide d'alpha de Cronbach, est acceptable pour le premier facteur (difficult�� �� identifier les sentiments (DIF)), bonne pour le second (difficult�� �� verbaliser les sentiments (DDF)), mais en revanche, faible pour le troisi��me facteur (pens��es orient��es vers l'ext��rieur (EOT)). Les r��sultats d'une Anova mettent en ��vidence une tendance lin��aire indiquant que plus l'��ge augmente plus le niveau d'alexithymie (score total TAS-20), la difficult�� �� identifier les sentiments et les pens��es orient��es vers l'ext��rieur diminuent. En ce qui concerne la pr��valence de l'alexithymie, on remarque en effet que 38,5 % des adolescents de moins de 16 ans sont consid��r��s comme alexithymiques, contre 30,1 % des 16-17 ans et 22 % des plus de 17 ans. Notre ��tude indique donc que la TAS-20 est un instrument ad��quat pour ��valuer l'alexithymie �� l'adolescence, tout en sugg��rant quelques pr��cautions ��tant donn�� l'aspect d��veloppemental de cette p��riode.

Evaluation of prenatal diagnosis of cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate by ultrasound: experience from 20 European registries. EUROSCAN study group.

Ultrasound scans in the mid-trimester of pregnancy are now a routine part of antenatal care in most European countries. Using data from registries of congenital anomalies a study was undertaken in Europe. The objective of the study was to evaluate prenatal detection of cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL(P)) and cleft palate (CP). All CL(P) and CPs suspected prenatally and identified at birth in the period 1996-98 were registered from 20 Congenital Malformation Registers from the following European countries: Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK, Ukraine. These registries followed the same methodology. A total of 709,027 births were covered; 7758 cases with congenital malformations were registered. Included in the study were 751 cases reported with facial clefts: 553 CL(P) and 198 CP. The prenatal diagnosis by transabdominal ultrasound of CL(P) was made in 65/366 cases with an isolated malformation, in 32/62 cases with chromosomal anomaly, in 30/89 cases with multiple malformations and in 21/36 syndromic cases. The prenatal diagnosis of CP was made in 13/198 cases. One hundred pregnancies were terminated (13%); in 97 of these the cleft was associated with other malformations.