[Cationic blood proteins in suppurative and septic processes].

The level of cationic proteins was studied in 52 patients with peritonitis and purulent processes of soft tissues. The authors have shown its elevation to be dependent on the degree of the disease. The improved state of the patients and recovery was followed by a decreased content of cationic proteins in blood, their fractional composition being normalized.

[Blood kinin system and pulmonary surfactant in peritonitis].

The experimental studies in rabbits have shown the pulmonary surfactant to participate in inactivation of kinins in the lung in peritonitis which results in the destruction of surfactant. Its deficiency is responsible for the development of pulmonary complications.

[Study of certain components of the kinin system in acute purulent peritonitis].

Under study was the kinetics of changes in the kinin content, the activity of kininase and blood proteolytic activity in acute purulent peritonitis in 63 patients. The kinin activity was judged indirectly by the kinin level in blood. The results of the study indicated that in acute purulent peritonitis the kinin concentration in blood is decreased in proportion with the gravity of the disease course.