[Special contact splints in postoperative care for patients with the diabetic foot]. / Pouzití speciálních kontaktních dlah v pooperacní péci u syndromu diabetické nohy.

UNLABELLED: Adequate stabilization and off-loading of the lower limb is an integral part of postoperative care for patients with the diabetic foot. Off-loading can accelerate the healing process and reduce the number of complications and reoperations. The newly introduced method of the performance of removable contact splints (modified contact removable casts) seems to fulfil a number of requirements for stabilization and off-loading devices - the method is safe and can actually reduce the healing time and the number of reoperations in patients with the diabetic foot. KEY WORDS: diabetic foot - off-loading - splints.

[Cytological detection of cervical dysplasia and neoplasia]. / Cytologická záchytnost cervikálních dysplazií a neoplazií.

A total of 7017 women were examined during a year in a specialized dispensary for prevention of cervical cancer and in a department of obstetrics. Diagnosis of PAP III or higher was established in 227 smears, i.e. 3,3% of cases. A correlation of positive cytology with following biopsy was performed. The influence of cervical inflammation and virus lesion on possible modification of suspect cytology was discussed.

[The impact of psychological stress on somatic and biochemical parameters in an atypical sports discipline]. / Odraz psychického zatazenia na niektoré somatické a biochemické parametre u atypického sportového odvetvia.

The subject of our interest was to investigate the response of the organism to mental strain in an atypical sports discipline. To this end we examined 10 chess players. We assessed their pulse rate at rest, before a contest, immediately after the contest and after 5 mins. recovery. Statistical evaluation revealed an increased heart rate before the contest, as compared with rest at a level of significance of 0.01; after the contest as compared with the status before the contest at a level of 0.02; in the recovery stage, as compared with rest, at the 0.01 level. As a control group we examined 10 hockey players under the same conditions and the results were compared with the chess players. For scientific practice it is necessary to find a way to monitor the internal environment during a chess game (catecholamines, lactate, glucose, fatty acids, cholesterol and others). As soon as this will be possible without disturbing the reflection process of the chess player, we shall be able to obtain more information on the adaptation of the organism to mental strain during a game of chess.