[Experience in studying perinatal losses according to the data of the Syktyvkar Postmortem Examination Bureau].

A database of all perinatal losses from 18 weeks' gestation in 1994-2007 was set up in Syktyvkar. It was found that 514 (24.3%) cases were associated with congenital malformation (CM) in the fetus (24.

[The seasonal aspects in activity of antioxidate enzymes in delivery woman inhabiting in the north].

The activity of super oxide dismutase (S), glutathione peroxidase (P), glutathione reductase (R) were analyzed 4 times during delivery (24 hour before partum, at start of the partu, immediately postpartum, and in 24 hours postpartum) in two populations of women inhabiting at 62 degrees NC (55 cases) and 69 degrees NC (40 cases) with normal delivery in January, March, June, and October. It was shown that physiological delivery did not play any significant role in S and P activity, and for these enzymes essential was the seasonal level of lipid peroxidation in North inhabitants. Activity of R in January and March was significantly lowered to the end of childbirth.

[Hemopoiesis in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia].

Hemopoiesis and functional activity of monocytes were assessed in 30 patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML). Changes in haemogram in CMML are characterized by anemia, thrombocytopenia, normal or increased count of leukocytes with absolute monocytosis and increased count of young granulocytes. Bone marrow hemopoiesis is characterized by enhanced proliferation of cellular elements of granulocytopoiesis and monocytes, suppressed erythropoiesis and megakaryocytopoiesis.