The authors analyse the pulmonary symptoms found by X-Ray in nine immunodepressed patients who were hosts to Pneumocystis carinii. The radiological abnormalities do not generally appear early nor are they specific; the syndrome of diffuse alveolar consolidation only appears at a late stage, it is most serious in the base and the peri-hilar regions, but does not affect the apex. It would appear that no prognostic value can be ascribed to the radiological results. The authors therefore suggest bronchial scanning for tracking down the Pneumocystis whenever suspicious clinical symptoms appear.

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[Activity and safety of fenspiride in bronchial hyperexudation (author's transl)].

This clinical trial of fenspiride (injectable and sustained-release 80 mg tablet) was carried out on patients selected because their bronchopathy was of a hypersecretory type. Interesting results were observed in 20 out of 37 cases, but they were often delayed. This group of patients included a high proportion of patients with major hypersecretion; the efficacy of fenspiride is often evident, (in 8 out of 11 cases) but it is unpredictable individually. It can be concluded from this trial that a long term treatment with fenspiride, well tolerated, can usefully be tried in patients with predominant signs of bronchial hyperexudation.

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[Brush biopsy in distal bronchial neoplasms].

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[Lumbo-pleural fistulaes and peri-renal suppurations. A propos of 2 cases].

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