Biomedical subjects

T Kirkova

Publications and source records attributed to T Kirkova.

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PubMed1981

[Influence of disturbed lung hemodynamics on the early bronchial obstruction in mitral disease (author's transl)].

32 subjects affected with mitral stenosis were investigated. All the subjects were nonsmokers, and none had any histories of lung disease. Mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAp) and mean wedge pressure (Pc) were obtained by right catherization and compared with a number of sensitive tests for the detection of incipient bronchial obstruction: dynamic and static lung compliance (CLdyn, CLstat); maximal expiratory flows at 50% and 25% (MEF50%, MEF25%) of the forced vital capacity (FVC): closing volume (CV); airway resistance (RAW), and residual volume (RV). It was established that most sensitive tests for the detection of bronchial obstruction, i.e. the difference between CLdyn and CLstat due to the reduction of CLdyn and the decrease of the instantaneous flows at 50% and 25% FVC, are in very good correlation with the changes in lung hemodynamics. The most significant correlations exist between Pc and CLdyn (r = 0.527), between PAp and RAW (r = 0.554) and between PAp and MEF50% (r = 0.320). CV and RV were not significantly correlated with PAp and Pc.

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PubMed1970

[Not Available].

In one of his medical works--"Cogitationes et observationes de climate hungarico" published in 1739--the Hungarian physician J. G. H. Kramer describes the very unhealthy climate of Hungary and the diseases and high death rate it causes among the inhabitants, especially foreigners. The longevity of part of the population is to be ascribed to an inherited adaptation to the climate and to peculiar nutrition and habits. Serbs, Wallachs and Gypsies abstain from eating meat almost nine months of the year. They take daily cold baths in all seasons, and the Serbs even immerge their new-born babies into cold water in summer as well as in winter. As regards health, vigour and longevity the Hungarians cannot be compared to the Serbs although they live in higher and more salubrious regions. Dr. Kramer's recommendations to people living in Hungary on the best way to keep their good health, represent the diet of the inhabitants belonging to the Greek Orthodox creed who, out of the 12 ethnic groups forming then the population of Hungary, were apparently the best adapted to the climate of their native country.

Bulgaria↗