[Cytological parameters of bronchoalveolar lavage in patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis exposed to laser radiation of blood].

Aim: Clinicocytological evaluation of efficacy of combined treatment of chronic obstructive bronchitis (COB) in exacerbation with application of laser radiation of blood.

Materials And Methods: Combined treatment with the use of He-Ne intravenous and transcutaneous radiation of blood was given to 32 patients with COB. 27 COB patients treated without blood irradiation served control.

[Plasmapheresis in the treatment of patients with hypertension].

The authors discuss the results of the use of plasmapheresis in multimodality treatment of patients with stage II essential hypertension. At present the prevalence, ever increasing accessibility and relative simplicity of plasmapheresis make it possible to use it for the treatment of essential hypertension. Analysis of the data obtained shows the high efficacy of plasmapheresis in essential hypertension.

[The effect of hyperbaric oxygenation on glycosylated proteins in diabetes mellitus].

Hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) effects on the levels of circulating glycosylated proteins with various life spans in the blood stream (glycosylated hemoglobin (GH) and serum glycosylated fructose amine (SF) were studied in diabetes mellitus patients not suffering from vascular complications but developing various microangiopathies. Measurements of blood glycosylated proteins and mean daily glycemia carried out over the course of HBO treatment in the diabetics without microangiopathies evidenced an essential reduction of blood GH, SF, and glucose, reaching, in some cases, the normal values. Patients with vascular involvement (lower limb angiopathy, nephropathy, retinopathy) exposed to HBO developed but a trend to reduction of blood levels of glycosylated proteins and glucose.

[Effects of plasmapheresis on lymphocytic energy enzymes in hypertension].

Cytochemistry of peripheral blood lymphocyte enzymes was studied in 58 patients with State II essential hypertension (36 of these were treated with traditional hypotensive therapy and 22 with plasmapheresis + drug therapy). alpha-GPDH, LDH, and acid phosphatase activities were found reduced in these patients. The degree of the enzymic activity reduction (SDH included) depended on the disease standing and family history of patients.