Wiadomości lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960)
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Stem cell transplantation is now a routine and successful therapeutic method in many hematopoietic disorders and cancers. Unfortunately, toxicity of the procedure significantly worsens the outcomes, with acute and chronic kidney injury among the others. Etiology of kidney failure is multifactorial with nephrotoxicity of drugs, septic complications, sinusoidal occlusion syndrome, thrombotic microangiopathy and acute/chronic graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). Understanding these syndromes enables early recognition and proper intervention that can reduce incidence and severity of kidney injury and improve outcomes.
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In July 2012, the act on preventing and counteracting infections and infectious diseases in humans was amended. Many changes concerning duties of physicians looking after patients with tuberculosis were proposed. ⋯ It is also essential that the national sanitary inspector be notified as to which health-care institution the patient with tuberculosis was referred to for treatment, and also about an evasion of antituberculous therapy by the patient. Many paragraphs concerning the control of infectious diseases were formulated more precisely.
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Ports are more and more often applied with patients requiring the permanent intravenous access, not only in the cancer treatment. Very devices, as well as procedures associated with applying them are determined in the heterogeneous way. Therefore during the last conference "Intravenous Port--implantation, care, complications" an attempt to systematize the applied terminology was made.
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The effective laws impose the duty upon TB patients or persons suspected to have TB as well as their close relations to undergo compulsory sanitary and epidemiological examinations. Furthermore, treatment is also mandatory and in case of infective patients hospitalization and isolation. ⋯ Persons suspected of TB have the obligation to provide necessary information helping in diagnosing the disease or helping to find the source of infection and transmission of the disease. TB patients are under obligation to discontinue performing their work to prevent the disease from spreading to other persons.
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The Act on preventing and counteracting infections and infectious diseases in humans effective in Poland requires the heads of health care outlets and institutions to counteract spreading of TB in units under their management. They are, by all means, responsible for monitoring infections in their respective units, including development, implementation and monitoring of the implementation of procedures into practice, aiming at limiting the dissemination of TB in hospitals and outpatient clinics. Medical service unit managers are also responsible for providing members of their staff with means of individual protection against infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus. ⋯ TB is an infectious diseases included in the occupational disease list. Assessment of TB as an occupational disease is the responsibility of provincial TB prevention clinics. The Act also provides principles of financing of individual benefits available for the insured TB patients as well as those not insured.