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Among the documents remaining from the lawyer and poet Vasile Aaron (1780-1821), preserved by the Sibiu County Department of the National Archives, a versified text dated 1801 can be found. This text reviews the types of marriage available to a young man, each with its own drawbacks. Signed with initials, the text may be attributed to Naum Petrovici, a Pestan versifier and clerk born in Banat. Our paper synthesizes what has been written up to now about this little known intellectual and tracks his literary and professional evolution. It also highlights his merits in organizing and modernizing the Romanian public education in territories under Hungarian jurisdiction at the beginning of that century. The paper also indicates his date of death as being August 1824 and establishes his place among the Enlightenment literati in Banat in the first decades of the XIXth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper emphasizes the importance of implementing counseling activities among young people at the age of formulating options for the future profession. We discuss general issues related to the role of interests and skills in the medical profession, also the importance of knowing the market characteristics in the medical field and the risk-assuming level. The paper details the most common models of options in choosing a profession and their degree of success depending on the compatibility or incompatibility of the medical profession's content and candidate's personality structure. At the end of the article we present an excerpt from an information material for adolescents of Sibiu County and neighboring counties within an institutional promotion campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Romanian culture in Transylvania at the end of the 19 century and the beginning of the 20 was mostly influenced by the German culture. Sibiu was a place of a multicultural tradition due to its Romanian, German or Hungarian inhabitants. The relatively high number of theatre performances and symphonic concerts announced in the local papers (Telegraful Român, Tribuna, Transilvania) proves that the German theatre and music were favorably received by the public in spite of its heterogenic structure. The most representative German playwrights and composers were known in Sibiu through their works that contributed to the spiritual enlightenment of the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: The objective of this paper was to highlight the presence of the right ventricular diastolic dysfunction in the patients with COPD, GOLD stage II and III, by two comparative methods, the pulsed Doppler at the level of the tricuspid diastolic flow (classical method) and the Tissue Doppler Imaging method (TDI). Method: The clinical trial was conducted on a group of 61 patients with COPD chosen among those who addressed the Pneumophtisiology Hospital of Sibiu, aged between 44 and 78 years old. In terms of the degree of functional respiratory impairment, 38 were diagnosed with COPD GOLD stage I, and 23 with GOLD stage III. The patients who presented a difficult ultrasound display were excluded from study, as well as those in which we could not register any valid echocardiographic measurements. Results: The patients with COPD have frequently impaired diastolic function, as evidenced both by the classical method and by the TDI method, the patients showing an early subclinical alteration of the right ventricular diastolic function. The TDI method, less used in the current practice, has a complementary role, especially in evaluating the patients with severe hyperinflation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brain metastases are the most common intracranial tumours found in adults: they occur as a result of the hematogenous dissemination, in 10-30% patients with cancer during their life and they are discovered in 25-40% cases at necropsy. Brain metastases are the most feared complication of generalized malignancy and the most intracranial tumours in adults. This paper presents the experience of the Clinical Oncology Hospital of Sibiu regarding the incidence, etiology, diagnosis methods, treatment and evolution in the patients with brain metastases between November 2009 and December 2011. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper continues the series of monographic studies started 11 years ago. Health issues highlighted in the county and communities, expressed through specific indicators, is the concrete result of the monitoring and evaluation of the phenomena recorded. Phenomena recorded in the decade 1999-2009 will be used in longitudinal analysis that we intend to achieve in the coming years, in order to detect real trends of the main aspects of the health of the population Sibiu. Knowledge of these trends provide scientific evidence to guide preventive actions to reduce premature deaths, promoting quality of life by correcting unfavorable living conditions of health and increased life expectancy and life expectancy, especially in health conditions. The study aims at monitoring the dynamics of the main health indicators of the Sibiu county in identifying and ranking specific health problems, establishing needs and resource allocation. The research was conducted by means of descriptive (retrospective longitudinal survey) from 1.01.2009- 1.09.2011. Study material is the population of 423,606 inhabitants with Sibiu county in 2008, respectively 425 134 inhabitants in 2009, sex ratio: 0.94 and population distribution by residential urban / rural: 67% / 33% no statistical differences during the study. Were studied statistics on demographic and morbidity, and some indicators of effect in relation to the environment. The results were benchmarked against the national average levels. Gross index of births in Sibiu County was higher than national in 2008 and decreased slightly in 2009 to a value close to sensitive national average. There is a moderate supranatalitate rural county of Sibiu. Gross mortality is less than the national average Sibiu County and is maintained at constant values. Gross rate of infant mortality in Sibiu County remains below the national values. The main cause of infant mortality in Sibiu county is represented by circulatory diseases. Cardiovascular disease mortality in Sibiu County recorded values below the national difference that is emphasized for the last year of study. Tumor mortality rates below the national record for the period of study and presents significant variations in the distribution of the localities. There is a significant reduction in the natural growth in the entire county in the last year of study, but the higher the national average. The incidence of specific diseases identified 16 groups for the first ranks respiratory diseases, digestive, osteo-muscular and nervous system. The main infectious and parasitic diseases that record high national average values during the study are chickenpox, hepatitis and rubella. The highest values of prevalence of chronic disease during the study were recorded for the following diseases: hypertension, chronic ischemic heart disease and diabetes, whose values are substantially equal to years of study. The main health indicators of the general phenomenon characterized Sibiu County demographic transition and the transition morbidity. Comparative assessment of health indicators at county and national health confirms a high population of Sibiu County. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Medical research has revealed that the cerebro-vascular disease and the mental disorders coexist. The purpose of this prospective research paper is to determine the incidence of mental disorders among patients suffering from cerebro-vascular diseases, the topographical and temporal correlation between the cerebro-vascular diseases and the psychopathology they develop, as well as the evolution of the psychic manifestations. The group of patients included 110 cases hospitalised in the Neurology Hospital in Sibiu in 2009-2010 and needed examination or long term psychiatric assistance after the beginning of the cerebro-vascular disease. The research showed that 70 -79 years old is the most affected group age (38.16% women and 32.25% men). Although from a numerical point of view paroxysmal and transitory psychic disorders prevail, this is a false conclusion, because a significant percentage of them are nothing but different ways of beggining for the permanent mental disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper evaluates the oral health of a group of patients exposed to occupational hazards in the electroplating sections of a plant in Sibiu. The reporting of the results is made by comparison with the estimates obtained after analyzing the oral health of a control batch, similar to the studied batch, but whose subjects were not exposed to specific hazards, such as copper, nickel, zinc, hydrochloric acid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper proposes a dynamic analysis of the main epidemiological characteristics of traumatic pathology in Sibiu County. The descriptive survey method is based on data collected from forensic acts performed by the Forensic Service of Sibiu County on the victims who suffered injuries. The studyperiod is 2006.010.01-2010.12.31 There were analyzed the following parameters: frequency of violent/non-violent deaths; death mechanism type, interpersonal aggression form, frequency, type and number of the forensic acts addressed to the victims. The findings have led to the following conclusions: 1. we can identify a traumatic pathology etiological profile for Sibiu County characterized by significant weight of the following deaths mechanisms: hit with hard object, hanging, drowning and other death mechanisms (cumulative). Although fluctuating during the study, these values registered important levels, in excess of 2 to 10 times the weight of other mechanisms; 2. it was described a slow downward trend, evolving in parallel, for the frequency of autopsied violent/ non-violent deaths only for the past two years of the interval; 3. the frequency of the homicides during the study registered fluctuating but high levels; 4. a slow but sustained reducing of the infanticide rate was regarded (from 3 cases in 2006 to 0 cases in 2010); 5 . in terms of causal relationship between criminal activity and its repercussions on the human body, there is a trend of increasing seriousness of the crimes committed by aggression, falling within Article 181 Criminal Code and Article 182 Criminal Code. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]