Vojenské Zdravotnické Listy, 2002 (vol. 71), issue 2
EDITORIAL
Jaroslav Pačes
VZL 2002, 71(2):41 
THE INCIDENCE AND PROGNOSTIC IMPORTANCE OF INTRAVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION DEFECTS IN THE ADMISSION ECG IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
Radek Pudil, Jaroslav Gregor
VZL 2002, 71(2):42-47
This study is a review of the incidence and frequency Of intraventricular conduction (IVC) defects complicating acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The study analyses the incidence of conduction defects with respect to AMI localisation. It also analyses data concerning the 30-day, and one year mortality ofthese patients. The main aim of this review is to show the clinical significance of IVC defects for risk stratification andfor a prognosis ofpatients with AMI.
NOVÁ ORGANIZAČNÍ STRUKTURA NĚMECKÉ VOJENSKÉ ZDRAVOTNICKÉ SLUŽBY
Josef Fusek, Vladimir Měrka
VZL 2002, 71(2):48-52
THE PRESENT STATE OF PROPHYLAXIS AGAINST ANTHRAX
Miroslav Špliňo, Jiří Patočka
VZL 2002, 71(2):53-57
This paper presents fundamental knowledge concerning Bacillus anthracis and its potential misuse by terrorists. The basic clinical forms are resumed with emphasis on inhalation infection from B. anthracis spore inhalation. The AVA vaccine licenced in the United States, primary vaccination, the protective efficacy of the vaccine, and adverse events are characterised. Stress is laid on the pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis of anthrax.
A HISTORY OF GRUINARD ISLAND - THE “ANTHRAX“ ISLAND
Miroslav Špliňo, Jiří Patočka
VZL 2002, 71(2):58-59
Gruinard Island lies in Gruinard Bay in northwest Scotland. The island is rocky in nature and about 2 km long and 1 km across at its widest point. In 1942, the War Department of UK identified Gruinard Island as a site for urgent field trials on biological warfare. It was declared a prohibited place, requisitioned and became known as "X-base". Tests of the toxicity of Bacillus anthracis spores were carried out in the summers of 1942 and 1943. The island became so contaminated that it was deemed out-of-bounds for almost 50 years. In 1986 an English company was paid half a million pounds to decontaminate the 520-acre island by Soaking the...
KERATINOCYTE - A BASIC CELL OF THE EPIDERMIS: ITS DAMAGE BY NON-IONIZING AND IONIZING RADIATION AND POSSIBILITIES FOR ITS PROTECTION
Pavel Petýrek
VZL 2002, 71(2):60-67
An organism’s interactions with the external environment are mediated through the epidermis and through a few different keratized and non-keratized epithelia. The epidermis is not directly vascularized but it is nourished from the blood vessels of the dermis. A human keratinocyte isolated from the skin creates in vitro colonies and each colony comes from one keratinocyte which is a stem cell of the epidermis. The absorption of UV radiation in the skin is primarily manifested in the epidermis keratinocytes and causes DNA and protein damage. This DNA damage is generally understood as a basic effect of irradiation leading to cellular death,...
HISTOLOGICAL AND MORPHOMETRIC EVALUATIONS OF CHANGES IN SELECTED RAT ORGANS AFTER A SHORT-TERM (SEVEN DAY) APPLICATION OF A (4-FLUORPHENYL) PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE (IIIV AGENT)
Dana Ťažká, Ruth Mlynarová, Jana Matušková, Eva Račanská, Pavel Švec, Ján Kyselovič
VZL 2002, 71(2):68-71
In our previous pharmacological evaluations of isolated organs (the atrium, the trachea and the aorta), we confirmed the effect of a new synthetized (4-fluorphenyl) piperazine derivative on the cardiovascular system (I). Specific influencing of the myocardium and a relatively high vasodilatative activity (2) led us to targeted morphometric and histological analysis of myocardium structure and aortal wall changes after a short-term IIIv agent application.A seven day 5 and 50 mg/kg administration of IIIv agent to rats led to a significant decrease in heart weight. In the 50 mg/kg dose we monitored a statistically significant...
THE EXPERIENCE AND PROSPECTS OF MILITARY HOSPITALS (ON THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OLOMOUC MILITARY HOSPITAL IN KLÁŠTERNÍ HRADISKO)
Josef Šváb
VZL 2002, 71(2):72-81
On the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the Olomouc Military Hospital’s relocation from the centre of town to the abolished Premonstratensian monastery building in Klašterní Hradiště near Olomouc, the results of the Olomouc Military Hospital’s operations during periods of military conflicts are compared. During these conflicts the military hospital fulfilled its own basic mission - the treatment and cure of wounded and sick soldiers in wartime. The Olomouc Military Hospital was used in this way during the Napoleonic Wars after the battles of Austerlitz, Wagram and Leipzig. Then it was fully used during the Prussian-Austrian...
CZECH PHARMACEUTICAL MUSEUM - KUKS
Karel Král, Ladislava Valášková
VZL 2002, 71(2):82-84
For more than a century representatives of the field of pharmacy were putting their efforts into building a pharmaceutical museum which would reflect the development of pharmacy. In 1969 the Pharmaceutical Faculty of Charles University came into existence in Hradec Králové. The task to create a pharmaceutical museum in the hospital near Kuks where there was a baroque pharmacy called “The Pomegranate“ which belonged to Merciful Brothers' Order was given to Václav Rusek. In 1996 an exhibition called “The Charm of a Pharmacy“ was opened in connection with the baroque pharmacy. In 2001 the exhibition was extended by three...
ŽIVOTNÍ JUBILEUM PLUKOVNÍKA v. v. MUDr. JAROSLAVA PAČESE, CSc.
Alexander Kúr
VZL 2002, 71(2):85
ASSESSMENT OF THE DRUG COMBINATIONS CONTAINING BIPERIDEN AND CHOLINESTERASE REACTIVATORS AS A PROPHYLAXIS AGAINST SOMAN INDUCED POISONING
Ivan Samnaliev
VZL 2002, 71(2):86-92
Protection against nerve agent-induced convulsive activity is a very important problem which is not solved yet. Pretreatment usually consists of reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, such as pyridostig-mine or physostigmine, alone or associated with centrally acting antimuscarinic compound. Biperiden is a tertiary amine antimuscarinic compound with strong atropine-like bloking eflects in the central nervous system. It possess anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) activity as well. It is well known. that biperiden is very effective against soman-induced lethality and convulsions. In the present study, biperiden (1.25 mg/kg i.m.) was combined with...