Vojenské Zdravotnické Listy, 2007 (vol. 76), issue 3
The Prognostic Stratification of Patients Suffering from the Ischemic Heart Disease Through the Non-Invasive Coronarography and Selected Biochemical Parameters and the Possibility to Influence It
Miroslav Martinkovič, Peter Prečinský, Pavol Blažíček
VZL 2007, 76(3):73-82 
The unstable plaque plays a key role in the development of acute coronary syndromes. The possibility of its detection and therapeutic influence significantly affects the prognostic stratification of the ischemic heart disease (IHD).The objective of this paper is to examine, using the selected serum inflammatory marker, the lipid spectrum, and the non-invasive coronarography, the possibility of detection of unstable plaques in the coronary bed and its use in the secondary prevention. The set consisted of 107 patients with various forms of ischemic heart disease divided into four basic groups according to diagnosis and coronarographic findings. All the...
Regression Equations for Electrocardiographic QT Interval of Children and Adults
Štefan Kujaník
VZL 2007, 76(3):83-88
One of the parametres of the electrical heart stability is also the QT interval (electrical systole) duration. It depends on the heart rate, during tachycardia it is being shortened during bradycardia it is being prolonged. However, its limits on the ECG are not very exactly defined, especially the end of T wave. For QT interval duration the ventricular cells of type M are mainly important and they have the very long action potentials. Plenty of equations were proposed, linear or nonlinear. QT duration and the mathematic formula of regression equation depend on several factors - gender, age, exercise, diseases, pharmacological agents. QT duration in...
Sextant Biopsy - Its Importance in Diagnosis of Prostate Neoplasia
Ladislav Slováček, Ladislav Jebavý, Jaroslav Kačerovský
VZL 2007, 76(3):89-94
The authors report a case of man with carcinoma of prostate with multiple osteolytic affection. The authors emphasize differencial diagnosis of multiple osteolytic affection and especially the meaning of sextant biopsy in diagnosis of neoplasia of prostate.
Biodosimetry: Dicentric Analysis and Premature Chromosome Condensation (PCC)
Jaroslav Pejchal, Jan Österreicher, Jiřina Vávrová
VZL 2007, 76(3):95-104
Current events throughout the world underscore the growing threat of different forms of terrorism, including a radiological or a nuclear attack. Physical dosimetric methods have sometimes low validity or are not used at all. Therefore, methods for accurate estismation of absorbed doses to facilitate effective triage are needed. Cytogenetic methods are the most widely used methods in biological dozimetry. The work analyses cytogenetic methods - dicentric analysis and premature chromosome condensation (PCC). The work assesses these methods and compares their advantages and disadvantages.
Radiotoxicology of Polonium
Jiří Patočka, Leoš Navrátil, Pavel Kuna
VZL 2007, 76(3):105-107
Polonium (Po) is a chemical elemement in the periodic table that has the atomic number 84. Polonium was discovered by Marie-Sklodowska-Curie and her husband Pierre Curie in 1898 and was later named after Marie's native land of Poland. It is a very rare element in nature because of the very short half-life of all its isotopes. Polonium has 25 known isotopes and all of them are radioactive. They have atomic masses that range from 194 to 218. 210Po is the most widely available when natural 209Bi is bombarded with neutrons. 210Po is an alpha emitter that has a half-life of 138.39 days; it decays directly to its daughter isotope 206Pb. Alpha particles emitted...
Report from the Symposium "Ways of Progress and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction"
Marian Sninčák, Kamil Pahuli, Zuzana Solárová, Mohamed Hassan Zain-el Abdin
VZL 2007, 76(3):108-112
46th Annual Meeting Society of Toxicology, USA
Jiří Bajgar
VZL 2007, 76(3):113-114
IDET 2007 and the Faculty of Military Health Sciences
Roman Šindelář, Ladislav Leško, Jan Krutiš, Roman Chlíbek
VZL 2007, 76(3):115-116
The authors present their knowledge from the 9th International Fair of Defensive and Safety Technology IDET 2007 which took place in Brno from 2nd to 4th May 2007. The University of Defence and its three faculties participated in this important event within the framework of the Czech Army. The Faculty of Military Health Sciences showed three exhibits from the Department of Epidemiology and the Department of General and Urgent Medicine: three posters, biobag with decontamination technique and first aid simulator.