[The features of uric acid metabolism in women in climacterium].

The purpose of the study was to establish the prevalence of uric acid (UA) metabolism disturbances as a possible risk factor of urate nephropathy in women of various age groups. The authors carried out a retrospective analysis of 757 case histories and performed uricemia and uricosuria screening in women aged 18 to 69 years. The study revealed significant age-dependent elevation of uricemia, with hyperuricemia (HUE) at the age of 60 to 69 years old.

[Microalbuminuria as one of the early diagnostic signs of kidney involvement in patients with a purine metabolic disorder].

The examination of 30 patients with purin disbolism (mean age 23.8 years) has demonstrated that microalbuminuria higher than 20 mg/day may serve a diagnostic criterion of early damage to the kidneys. The level of microalbuminuria correlated with the degree of purin metabolism disorder.

[Gemfibrozil in the treatment of lipid metabolism disorders].

The study was made of gemfibrozil tolerance and effectivity against atherosclerosis and in correction of lipid metabolism in 20 patients with hyperlipidemia. (11 males and 9 females, a mean age 51 +/- 3.1 years).

[The clinico-biochemical activity and tolerance of the hypolipidemic preparation lipanthyl].

There were 56 patients with hyperlipoproteinemias, treated with lipantil in a dose of 300-600 mg/day. After 8 weeks of the treatment the blood triglyceride content declined by 65.4%, the blood content of total cholesterol 24.

[The clinico-morphological characteristics of psoriatic nephropathy].

Based on studying the data obtained during examination of patients with psoriasis combined with the urinary syndrome possible varieties of psoriatic nephropathy, namely chronic glomerulonephritis (CGN) and amyloidosis were distinguished. CGN combined with psoriasis was mainly represented by latent glomerulonephritis (GN) and morphologically, it was mostly represented by the mesangio-proliferative variant, with IgA and C3 being fixed on the basal membrane of the capillaries and in the mesangium. The clinicomorphological feature of that form of psoriatic GN is combination of the signs of both associated CGN and hyperuricemia and IgA-nephritis.

[Clinical evaluation of the Glucophot reflecting photometer in determining glucose in whole blood].

Clinical trials of the Glukofot reflecting photometer prototype for measuring the whole blood glucose in reagent strips have been carried out. The reproducibility has been assessed in various operations with different glucose concentrations. Attempts to estimate the calibration curve linearity and the accuracy with the control sera as against the glucose oxidase method have failed, probably because of the presence of stabilizers and inhibitors, and different viscosity of these substances as compared to whole blood viscosity.

[Isolation and immunoenzyme determination of human beta 2-microglobulin].

Two procedures for isolation of homogeneous beta 2-microglobulin from urine of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus were developed: a procedure for isolation of beta 2-microglobulin with two-stage gel chromatography on Sephacryl S-200 and a procedure for isolation of homogeneous beta 2-microglobulin with affinity chromatography on rabbit polyclonal antibodies. The microglobulins isolated with the two procedures showed identical physicochemical properties and were used in development of a competitive immunoenzymatic assay method for determination of beta 2-microglobulin in the blood. The method was approved for determination of beta 2-microglobulin in blood serum of patients.

[Disorders of purine metabolism as an etiological factor in renal pathology].

Of 3200 patients admitted to the nephrology department within several years, hyperuricemia was detected in 696. Excluding from this number persons with signs of chronic renal insufficiency (146 persons) and patients who were treated by diuretics (89), the frequency of hyperuricemia was 16.2% which exceeded almost 2-fold (9.

[New mechanisms of a positive effect of curantyl in chronic nephritis].

The effects of curantyl (dipiridamole) on the excretion of prostaglandins E2 and F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha and PGF2 alpha) and renal hemodynamics (RHD) were studied in patients with hypertensive nephritis in an acute test and during prolonged (up to 21 mos) single-agent therapy. In the acute test curantyl increased PG excretion in 15 out of 18 patients by 86.8 +/- 17.

[Lipid metabolism disorder in skeletal musculature (carnitine palmitoyltransferase deficiency) and paroxysmal myoglobinuria].

For the first time in Soviet medical literature a patient with an insufficiency of carnitine palmityl transferase (CPT) in skeletal muscles is described. The disease manifested itself in repeated attacks of severe muscular pains and myoglobinuria developing after long-time muscular efforts. The patient showed a persistent rise of the serum levels of free fatty acids, beta-lipoproteids and triglycerides, as well as a rise of the triglyceride level in the course of a 3-day fasting, the fact rather characteristic of muscular CPT insufficiency.