[Clinical and electric neuromyographic correlations in vibration disease caused by local vibration].

The authors represented results of correlating hypoalgesia levels and characteristics of hand bone and joint disorders in vibration disease patients with activation speed and amplitude of evoked action potential in sensory fibres of median and ulnar nerves.

[Experience of ribomunyl application in patients with chronic bronchitis].

The authors performed clinical and immunological evaluation of efficacy of treatment of patients with occupational chronic bronchitis (CB) working in contact with pneumotropic pollutants, including airway irritants and dusts. The complex therapy included an immune-correcting agent of bacterial origin, ribomunyl. The indicators to the drug administration were remission or moderate manifestations of the disease with disturbances of mucosal immunity, both isolated (imbalance of IgA, IgG and salivary lysozyme) or combined with systemic immunity disorder (decrease of neutrophilic phagocyte activity, serum IgM and IgG, and the number of T-lymphocytes).

[Classification of vibration disease caused by exposure to local vibration].

Present classification of vibration disease caused by exposure to local vibration contains, as the authors consider, moot points concerning bone, fibrous and muscular dystrophia of hands as a criterion for the disease severity. The article covers discussion on this topic.

[Optimization for periodic medical examinations of workers].

Simple and handy examination methods could be applied to periodic medical examination of individuals exposed at work to local vibration, pneumotropic pollutants and industrial noise. With these methods, the examinations become not burdensome for ordinary internists of general medical institutions.