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Along the years, among all team games played in Oradea, the water polo has obtained the best results in the national and international competitions, has promoted numerous athletes in the national Olympic lots for seniors and juniors. Nevertheless, the evolution of this discipline has never presented a special interest for those who have studied the history of sport in Oradea. Taking all this into account, we have considered that such a paper to be topical and that it would be useful to those interested in the history of sport in Oradea, and especially in the evolution of the polo in our city. During the process of documentation we have studied encyclopedic works, monographs of the Romanian polo, articles from local and central newspapers, documents from the leadership forum of the polo in our country, as well as from the polo clubs from Oradea. For better information we have studied a rich iconographic material, we have talked to players, coaches, leaders and other persons who possessed documentary material concerning our theme. This paper approaches aspects from the beginnings of the water polo in Oradea, its evolution, the most important results obtained by our teams during the national and international competitions, their contribution in the forming of the Olympic teams for seniors and juniors. We also present players, coaches and leaders who had a significant recognition locally and nationally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The activity and athletic performance of the tennis player Lenke Ziszovits-Popper, who along with Nini Golescu Klara Somogyi-Hensch and Magda (Bereczky) Berescu-Rurac, was one of the representative athletes of this sport in the interwar period is the subject of our study. This paper contributes to a better knowledge of the history of tennis in Oradea between the two world wars. Through its content, the paper is interesting to those studying sports in Oradea, in that period, and especially to those who are interested in the evolution of women's tennis in Oradea and useful for those investigating the contribution of Jewish athletes to sportive development in our city. In the process of documentation we studied monographs, press sports columns dating from 1895 to 1944, documents relating to the theme, which are part of private collections and also rich iconographic material. In the first part, the paper deals with the evolution of tennis in Oradea beginning with the late nineteenth century and up to the '30s, presenting the context in which the sport was developing, the material aspects, the main competitions organized, the most important results obtained. Afterwards the first years of activity of the player Lenke Ziszovits-Popper are presented, her national results and her participation in a series of international competitions in Austria, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Greece, Romania, Turkey and Hungary. The ending refers to restricting measures imposed by the authorities and by the sport movement in Romania against athletes who belonged to a minority; and also to the enforcement of the Jewish law by the Hungarian Government as a result of the annexation of Northern Transylvania, measures which affected her sporting career. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our aim was to study the contribution of the Hebrew community in Oradea to athletic development in our city between 1900 and 1942. Through its content, the work presents an interesting account to those researching the history of sport in Oradea in the period before the Second World War, particularly the role of the Jewish leaders of sports clubs, coaches and athletes in the development of sport in our city. We studied Hebrew ethnic participation in sport development in Oradea. The scientific documentation consisted of the study of the works dealing with the history of sport in Bihor County, researching the press articles published in local newspapers that appeared in the period 1900-1942 and consulting documents in private collections. The paper refers to the context that influenced the Hebrew community involvement and participation in the sporting life of Oradea, its contribution to the establishment of sports clubs and their activity before the First World War. In addition, it presents the role played by Hebrew athletes, coaches and leaders in the implementing of new sports branches. Further, the paper refers to changes in the status of the Jewish community in Romania after the First World War and how it influenced the work of Hebrew ethnics in sport movements in Oradea. Also it studies the sport activity of the Jews in Oradea under anti-Semitic policy and discriminatory measures taken against the Hebrew community and after the enforcement of the Hebrew laws of the Hungarian government as a result of the annexation of northern Transylvania. On account of its role in the establishment of sporting clubs and in the management and the financing of these and subsequently the results in local and national competitions managed by these athletes who were in the minority and, finally, because of the athletes promoted in Romania's national teams, the Hebrew city community made a great contribution to the sport development in Oradea. Anti-Jewish policy, banning the right of the Jews to participate in sports, the dissolution of Hebrew associations or those which did not expel the Jewish members, destroyed a valuable tradition which was on its way to establish and strengthen part of the heritage of Oradea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: All guidelines of cardiac insufficiency recommend the treatment with inhibitors of conversion enzymes (IECA) for all patients suffering from chronic cardiac insufficiency (ICC) as suggestion. The present paper aims to evaluate the necessity or efficiency of IECA treatment, to highlight the difficulties that the physician meets while monitoring these patients after having been released. Material and method: For this study 320 patients suffering from cardiac insufficiency, committed in the Cardiology Hospital from Oradea between August 2003 - August 2005, have been monitorised. All patients have been monitorised in ambulatory at least 12 months since they started on IECA treatment. In the physician's office the reccurence of cardic insufficiency and adverse reactions have been monitorised through monthly visits or when necessary. The doctor also monitored when admission was necessary and the admission days according to the way the target doze needed to be reached or treatment needed to be interrupted. IECA therapy was initiated with dozes according to the ICC European Guide, with the suggestion that at release dozes should be increased to reach the target dozes suggested in the same guide. Results: From the 320 patients 105 (32.81%) are women and 215 (67.19%) are men. The average age is 61.3 years. Target dozes were reached at 212 patients (66.25%). From the 320 patients of our study who were held under IECA treatment at release 64 (20%) patients needed to interrupt the treatment for the following 3 months for: low arterial pressure at 34 (10.62%) patients, dry coughing at 20 (6.3%) patients, increase in serumal creatine with more than 50% at 4 (1.2%) patients, and the proteinuria new at 6 (1.88%) patients. 44 (13.75%) patients did not reach the target doze but did not need to interrupt the treatment because of the low arterial pressure. From the patients that reached the IECA target dozes (212), 52 (24.53%) needed to be admitted in the following year, from the 44 that did not interrupted treatment but did not reach target doze either 36 (81.81%) needed to be admitted in the next year, and from the 64 patients that interrupted IECA treatment 60 (93.75%) needed to be admitted in the following year. The optimum treatment was aimed for patients that needed admission for the following year and did not get the optimum IECA dozes. From those that started again on IECA therapy 5 (18.52%) patients from those that initialy did not reach the target dozes and 13 (28.26%) from those that interrupted the tratment needed to be admitted in the following 12 months. Conclusion: Inhibitors of conversion enzyme are considered to be the only physiopathologic treatment of ICC and this is why interruption of IECA treatment should be the last alternative for pacients suffering from ICC, along with the interruption of betablocking teatment. For patients suffering from hypotension increasing of hydro-salinic restriction and adjusting the diuretic doze are alternatives that must be considered, in the third place is the adjustment of IECA doze, and last, their interruption. For patients that show adverse reactions because of the bradkinina concentration increase one should consider the antagonists of angiotension II receivers with healing effect on the evolution of patients suffering from ICC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the landmarks for a history of the Bihor pharmacies outside Oradea, in order to provide information on the beginnings of the supply of this area's population with drugs, on the dates of foundation of the pharmacies, on the evolution of pharmaceutical activity in small towns and rural areas. The focus on the history of pharmacies in this territory is due to the lack of studies on this subject. Drug supply to the population of the rural areas of Bihor county takes place under different conditions from those of Oradea city, which is a county town, especially that the localities spread throughout the territory have certain peculiarities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oradea was one of the first cities in our country where the game of soccer was practiced. The paper proposes to address the main points related to the beginnings of football in Oradea, starting from the context of the evolution of football in Europe and its introduction into Romania. The study is based on the research of documents from the National Archives of Romania, Bihor County, mainly articles in the local press. The first record of the game of football in the local press is from the Nagyvárad newspaper on April the 27th 1902, describing the main rules of the game and a brief history of this sport discipline. In other editions of the same newspaper - April 27, May 25, 29 and 1st of June 1902 - a number of items that promote this new sport discipline and offer readers information appear on the preparation for the official presentation of football to the public in Oradea. In the 129th edition, in the XXXIII year, 3 June 1902, a report of the first football game in our city were described, an event which took place in Rhedy Park on Sunday, 2 June 1902. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]