Showing papers by "Stockholm County Council published in 1978"
TL;DR: The results confirm that the reactivity of non-purified lymphoid cell preparations decreases significantly after radiotherapy, indicating that monocytes-macrophages may become non-specifically immunosuppressive after local radiotherapy.
Abstract: Radiation therapy for carcinoma of the breast may induce lymphopenia and a reduction of the purified protein derivative (PPD) tuberculin reactivity of the lymphocytes in vitro as measured on a cell-for-cell basis. In the present investigation we have examined whether the reduced PPD-reactivity after irradiation can be explained by the appearance of non-specific suppressor cells. The results confirm that the reactivity of non-purified lymphoid cell preparations decreases significantly after radiotherapy. This reduction was not correlated to the extent of radiation induced lymphopenia. In contrast, lymphoid cell preparations depleted of adherent cells do not exhibit any significant decrease, indicating that monocytes-macrophages may become non-specifically immunosuppressive after local radiotherapy.
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TL;DR: A 74-year-old woman with late infection caused by Actinomyces israelii following total hip arthroplasty is presented and the foreign material of the prosthesis probably predisposed for the infection.
Abstract: A 74-year-old woman with late infection caused by Actinomyces israelii following total hip arthroplasty is presented. The foreign material of the prosthesis probably predisposed for the infection.
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TL;DR: It was concluded that the children immigrating from Finland should be considered a risk group with regard to oral health.
Abstract: Children immigrating into Sweden from Finland and Southern Europe (Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey) were subjected to a longitudinal study on caries activity and gingival condition. For each immigrant child a Swedish "twin" of the same sex and age was used as a control. Out of 124 pairs originally examined, 75 were reexamined after a 2 1/2-year stay in Sweden. The study showed that on arrival in Sweden the Finnish children had more caries and a higher Gingival Index (GI) than the controls and that they acquired more carious lesions during their stay in this country. Their GI, however, did not develop less favorably than that of the Swedish controls. The South-European children did not seem to have more carious lesions than the Swedish controls on arriving, nor did they seem to acquire more carious lesions during the period of observation. Their GI was higher at the first examination but the change in this index ran parallel with that of the controls. It was concluded that the children immigrating from Finland should be considered a risk group with regard to oral health.
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