Ewa Jassem

..Cough is one of the main symptoms of advanced lung disease. However, the efficacy of currently available treatment remains unsatisfactory. Research into the new antitussives requires an objective assessment of cough...

..We aimed to investigate how Poles, including the medically ill, cope with quitting cigarettes and what their motivations to quit are...

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..In the present study we investigated whether polymorphic variants of DRD2 and SLC6A3 genes and their combinations are associated with the smoking habit in the Polish population...

..We aimed to determine whether 5-HTTLPR genotype is associated with smoking behavior in Caucasians from Northern Poland and to investigate other risk factors for tobacco smoking...

..Finally, a positive impact of quitting smoking in lung cancer patients, including those who have undergone curative resection, was presented...

..It should also allow for broad cooperation with auxiliary staff, such as social workers, medical assistants and volunteers, as well as psychologists and clergymen (especially in the terminal phase of the disease)...

..The aim of the study was an analysis of medical students' attitudes towards smoking during at the first and sixth year of their studies...

..The aim of the study was to evaluate the quality of spirometry testing and interpretation performed by general practitioners and pulmonologists...

..Reduction of DLCO can indicate, however, that DM leads to alveolar-capillary barrier damage in the lung. In this paper authors review available literature on microangiopathy and its influence on the lung function...

..However more than a half of smokers wants to give up their habit. Of those who are not willing to, 25% is not aware of the cigarettes' impact on their health. These results call for further anti-nicotine actions...

..Lung diseases, especially COPD, are one of the leading causes of death. The aim of the study was to assess mortality caused by COPD, asthma and cor pulmonale in the years 2001-2004 in the Pomerania province...

..The aim of the study was to assess the quality of life of patients with asthma who were well and poorly controlled...

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..001). The nasal allergen challenge with fungal allergen seems to be a promising diagnostic method of allergic rhinitis. Late phase of the allergic reaction seems to be an important part of the assessment...

..Understanding the molecular events in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is essential to improve early diagnosis and treatment for this disease...

..In the present study we assessed the impact of former cigarette smoking on asthma control and treatment effectiveness...

..Ct-angiography has shown unilateral hypoplasia of pulmonary artery. It indicates that in all cases of uncontrolled asthma should be considered another or coexisting diagnosis...

..Current staging methods are imprecise indications of prognosis, but high-risk patients can be identified by gene expression profiling and considered for adjuvant therapy...

..Recent data indicate that fungi may contribute to increased severity of asthma...

..These results indicate the efficacy of the combination of gemcitabine and cisplatin regimen in advanced non-small cell lung cancer, and its acceptable toxicity...

..These results suggest the lack of prognostic relevance of p21WAF1/CIP1 expression (analyzed separately or jointly with p53 protein) in surgically treated NSCLC patients...

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..001) and degree of tumor differentiation (p = 0.005). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that altered pRb and p53 expression does not provide prognostic information in operable NSCLC patients...

..01 for both comparisons). Our results suggest that MDM2 gene amplification analysis provides additional prognostic information in surgically treated NSCLC patients...

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..48). The results of the study indicate that serum Ab-anti-p53 are relatively often present in advanced NSCLC patients, however the clinical value of this test needs further evaluation...

..These results indicate that p53 and p16 gene mutations tend to occur together in NSCLC, however these alterations seem not to have noteworthy clinical and prognostic significance...

..Lymph nodes with pregranulomatous sinus histiocytosis labelled with both antibodies. This profile of immunolabelling can be used in the differentiation of this condition from reactive sinusoidal lesions...

..Results of the study suggest that exercise tests are safe and easy method of diagnosis and management of asthma. PIF measurement seems to be non-useful in diagnosis of bronchial asthma. It must be confirmed in further studies...

..The results of this study indicate that TP53 gene mutations in NSCLC patients are not correlated with clinical characteristics and have no impact on survival...

..The aim of this study was the comparison of clinical utility of obturation reversibility test and exercise provocation test in asthma diagnosis in patients with normal spirometry values...

..Eosinophil Cationic Protein (ECP) is released from activated eosinophils during the inflammation process...

..Additionally, the correlation between Pro72 and somatic TP53 mutations suggests that Pro72 allele carriers may be predisposed to tumour development along a p53 associated form of NSCLC, a finding that warrants further investigations...

..Every tenth priest and every third student hide his smoking habit from other priests. The study showed low prevalence of cigarette smoking in priests, what resulted mainly from religious reasons...

..213; thus, no positive results of the test were observed. The values of OD did not differ significantly in both groups (p = 0.59). CONCLUSION: In our region the participation of HTLV-I in the pathogenesis of sarcoidosis is doubtful...

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..However systemic reactions were revealed only in the group of patients with at least one positive result of skin prick tests...

..The experience of Gdansk Mastocytosis Centre indicates that mastocytosis is a rare and difficult to diagnose disease...

..75%), but this difference was not significant. CONCLUSION: No significant association was found between LOH on any analyzed loci and tumour stage (TNM) and grade (G). There was no correlation between LOH and survival...

..In this paper the case of a 53 year old women has been described. The women had the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux of asthma and depressive syndrome, witch masked the symptoms of the latent tetany...