What's the difference between pneumology and pulmonology?
Pneumology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) He uses as a basis the CDC classification of HIV infections and explains on different models of clinical situations mechanisms which lead to haematological, neurological, immunological, pneumological, gastroenterological, oncological and rheumatological symptomatology.
(2) Of a total of 1950 patients with various pneumologic affections 115 cases were selected, on the basis of positive mycologic results on examination of the bronchial aspirate.
(3) Some ascertained the utility of the quantitative bacteriology in pneumology especially for the diagnosis of acute bronchopulmonary infections.
(4) Connective tissue diseases are relatively frequently associated with pulmonary manifestations, and should thus always be included in the pneumological differential diagnostic evaluation.
(5) While dependable diagnosis can now be virtually assured, surgical and pneumological management holds out few prospects of success.
(6) In the methodological cabinet for pneumology of the Institute of Phtysiology, radiophotography was employed in the following fields: a) screening of acute and chronic pneumopathies as appears from : the increase in the number of cases of non-specific pneumopathies as compared with cases of tuberculosis and the quantitative contribution of the method reflected in the fact that over 80% of the cases with non-specific pneumopathies were detected by radiophotography; b) diagnosis -- by comparing with the data recorded in the files, multiple incidences (front, posterior lordosis, profile); locally pointed (targeted) photographs, rf quantified functional tests in cases suspected of C.O.B.P.
(7) The aims of and indications for exercise testing as a noninvasive method in pneumology are described with special emphasis on the diagnosis of chronic thrombo-embolic disease and primary pulmonary hypertension.
(8) The pharmacokinetic properties were investigated of teicoplanin, including its penetration into suction blister fluid (SBF), after a single intravenous bolus administration of 600 mg in seven pneumological patients with normal renal and hepatic function.
(9) The purpose of this study was to observe routine practice in the care of tuberculosis cases treated in the Seine Saint-Denis department in 1984, with reference to the recent recommendations of the French Pneumology Society.
(10) The predictive value of diagnostic tests for the recognition and differentiation of allergic diseases of the immediate type has been evaluated on the basis of the results of a non-selective allergologic-pneumologic examination of the staff of an industrial bakery.
(11) After a brief critical review of the historical development of bronchography, 10 cases encountered in the Pneumology Unit of Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, Turin are examined in order to compare the indications to and results of bronchography.
(12) On a pneumological background, it is useful to perform this examination, most of the time : a) on patients over 55, when a cardiorespiratory decompensation remained unexplained in a patient with chronic respiratory insufficiency, or even an unproved hemoptysis; b) but mostly before 55, in case of painful pneumopathy above all if it is bilateral and recurring, or in case of paroxysmal bronchospasm without atopic ground, when a belated asthma could be thought of.
(13) In pneumology stationaries 6.207 patients with COPD or 21.5% were treated.
(14) Computerized tomography (CT) of the chest is now widely used in pneumological practice.
(15) During the last 12 years a total of 243 patients with SP were admitted to our Department of Pneumology; of these, 156 = 62.2% were treated by thoracoscopy.
(16) Pneumology service should be its fundamental principles of integral medicine, priority and economics in health analyse the most optimal suggestion of its future evolutive development of pneumology and public health service on the whole.
(17) At July 1st the tasks of the former chest clinics, now integrated into the polyclinical system as polyclinical departments for respiratory diseases and tuberculosis are fixed and declared by decree and 3 regulations in the field of pneumology.
(18) Fibrobronchoscopy, first used in pneumology with a diagnostic and therapeutic purpose, has been recently used in the therapy of "difficult intubations".
(19) Out of 200 healthy individuals, 148 being tuberculin--positive BCG-vaccinated adults, only 10 contacts--nurses of the pneumology department and laboratory technicians of the mycobacterial laboratory--were found positive for anti-A60 IgG.
(20) It is concluded that, particularly in pneumology, none of them is sufficiently sound to justify the prophylactic measures generally systematically used.
Pulmonology
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of the qualitative composition of the sputum proteins and their content can be used in pulmonology for differential diagnosis and assessment of a course of pulmonary diseases.
(2) The conception of the "acute" and "chronic" bed in pulmonology is explained.
(3) The flow-volume curve is an important routine method in pediatric pulmonology to determine the dimension and location of ventilation disorders and for follow-up studies and therapy supervision.
(4) Referral-based pulmonology clinic in a public institution.
(5) Clinicoroentgenological presentation of Legionella-induced pneumonia diagnosed in a pulmonological department of the Khabarovsk regional hospital is illustrated on 5 cases confirmed serologically.
(6) In 27 patients, suffering with chronic alcoholism and hospitalized for pulmonary diseases in the Clinic of Pulmonology and Phthisiology, the following immunological characteristics were checked up: the functional activity of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and in 12 patients also that of alveolar macrophages were evaluated on the basis of the study of the phagocytic index and the phagocytic number, myeloperoxidase and the nitro blue tetrazolium test; the levels of serum IgG, IgA and IgM, the titer of the complement, E-rosette-forming cells (active and total) were also evaluated; the deficiency of cell-mediated immune response was determined by means of intradermal tests with the use of P.P.D., phytohemagglutinin, candidin, trichophytin.
(7) The patient died three months postoperatively at the department of pulmonology.
(8) The results obtained indicate the appropriateness of further development of genetic investigations in pulmonology.
(9) The authors have stressed the possible role of allergization in development of pulmonological disorders.
(10) Ecological pulmonology appeared due to the technical revolution and increase of toxic substances entering the body through the upper respiratory tract to the lungs.
(11) Nonuniform release of biogenic amines and acetylcholine in pulmonologic patients depended on the severity of the inflammatory process in the bronchi, hypoxemia, bronchial obstruction, and reactivity of the bronchi examined during cold air breathing.
(12) Mass screening diagnosis of the workers and employees engaged in nickel industry of the Noril'sk industrial region (n = 3049) according to the clinico-epidemiological program of the All-Union Research Institute of Pulmonology demonstrated a high incidence of chronic bronchitis (CB) and its preclinical conditions.
(13) Examples include endoscopy, urology, pulmonology, cardiology, surgery, intensive care, and orthopedics.
(14) The results of the five-year study of S. aureus and P. aeruginosa associations isolated from the sputa of pulmonological patients are presented.
(15) For pathohistological examination a new histochemical method developed at the Kiev Research Institute of Phthisiology and pulmonology on the basis of trimethine dyes of the oxanol class of organic solvents (with PK-144) was used along with the routine procedures.
(16) Angiographic methods are claimed to be equivalent to the classical diagnostic procedures applied in pulmonology and their wide-spread use is recommended.
(17) According to the data of the Institute of Pulmonology of the USSR Ministry of Public Health about 20 per cent of the patients in the specialized pulmonological department had hereditary diseases of the lungs.
(18) The mean times required for the treatment at the day hospitals and specialized hospitals of the city, gastroenterological, pulmonological, nephrological and vascular surgical, are under comparison.
(19) The present incidence of chronic nonspecific diseases of the lungs with temporary invalidity requires organization of hospital care for pulmonological patients at the medical and sanitary departments of the plants.
(20) The course of pulmonary tuberculosis was analyzed in 34 females older than 70 years and 30 women, age range 35-55 years (mean 43.8 yrs) treated between 1.01.1985 and 31.12.1988 in the Pulmonological Department of the Szczecin Medical Academy.