[Neurochemical mechanisms of depression-like behavior in WAG/Rij rats].

Behavior in the light-dark choice, open-field, sucrose consumption/preference and forced swimming tests, monoamines and their metabolites level in 6 brain structures (prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, striatum, hypothalamus, hippocampus, amygdala), and density of D2-like dopamine receptors in 21 brain regions were studied in WAG/Rij and Wistar rats. WAG/Rij rats exhibited symptoms of depression-like behavior such as increased immobility in the forced swim test and decreased sucrose consumption/preference (anhedonia). Substantial changes in behavior indicating increased anxiety in WAG/Rij rats were not revealed.

[The course of parvovirus B19 infection during pregnancy after kidney transplantation].

Having a tropism for erythroid progenitor cells, parvovirus B19 may cause partial red cell aplasia and thrombocytopenia. Early diagnosis of parvovirus B19 infection in immunocompromised patients is needed for timely antiviral therapy. A high-risk group for parvovirus B19 infection includes patients with blood diseases who receive multiple transfusions of blood components; those who have undergone donor organ transplantation and are long taking immunosuppressive drugs; and pregnant women.

[Chronic lymphocytic leukemia accompanied by renal failure].

Aim: To evaluate the efficiency and safety of monotherapy with bendamustine (B) and therapy with B in combination with rituximab (B + R) in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) accompanied by renal failure (RF).

Subjects And Methods: The prospective pilot study included 8 patients (6 men, 2 women) with CLL concurrent with RF. The patients' median age was 63 years (51-77 years).

[Morphological and immunochemical features of nephropathies in multiple myeloma and severe renal failure].

Aim: To study the pathomorphology of kidneys in patients with multiple myeloma (MM) and severe renal failure (RF) and to compare the results of morphological, immunohistochemical, and electron microscopic examinations of nephrobiopsy specimens with the pattern of monoclonal secretion and the type of proteinuria and paraproteinuria.

Subjects And Methods: A study group comprised 25 patients with MM and severe RF; 22 of them underwent programmed hemodialysis. Immunochemical study of serum and urine proteins, renal puncture biopsy with light, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy examination of its specimens were performed in all the patients.

[Crystalline histiocytosis].

The paper describes a case of diagnosis of the rare monoclonal secretion-associated disease crystalline histiocytosis with kidney and bone marrow involvement. The female patient with multiple myeloma (MM) was found to have intralysosomal crystals in the cells of the bone marrow (histiocytes, plasmocytes), kidneys proper (mesangiocytes, podocytes), and subsequently in those of a kidney graft. Lower secreted monoclonal IgG and ceased Bence-Jones protein secretion after MM chemotherapy were accompanied by improved and stabilized kidney graft function.

[The specific features of renal lesion in Burkitt's lymphoma].

Aim: To analyze the causes of renal lesion in patients with Burkitt's lymphoma (BL) and to develop optimal treatment policy.

Materials And Methods: The data of examination and treatment were analyzed in 20 patients with BL (14 men and 6 women aged 15 to 57 years (median age 24 years)) who had been followed up for renal lesion at the Hematology Research Center (HRC) in 2003 to 2011. When admitted to hospital, all the patients were found to have ureteric compression, renal parenchymal tumor infiltration, massive tumor cytolysis syndrome (MTCS).

[Nephropathy caused by non-amyloid organized and granular deposits as multiple myeloma syndrome].

A rare variant of nephropathy in multiple myeloma (MM) is reported. Nephropathy is characterized basing on the study of nephrobiopsy with light, immunofluorescent and electron microscopy. A repeat biopsy of the kidney was made after achievement of a complete clinicohematological remission.

[An extremely high serum methotrexate concentration associated with acute renal failure in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia after conduction of high dose consolidation].

Acute renal failure (ARF) is one of rare and severe methotrexate (MT)-induced complications in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. A case of MT-induced renal dysfunction with an extremely high serum MT concentration is reported. This toxicity required conduction of hemodiafiltration for extracorporeal MT elimination.

[Monitoring the efficiency of heparin anticoagulation in patients on programmed hemodialysis].

The activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) test is widely used to monitor heparin anticoagulation. The relationship of the APTT to the activity of administered unfractionated heparin was defined in 23 patients on programmed hemodialysis, by using six APTT reagents. A calibration curve was plotted for each reagent.

[Multiple myeloma in renal transplant recipients].

Severe renal failure (RF) may be the first and only clinical manifestation of multiple myeloma (MM). Occasionally the disease remains long unrecognized and the patients receive renal function replacement therapy, including renal transplantation (RT). To treat MM in renal transplant recipients is a complex medical and ethical problem.

[A case of hemolytic-uremic syndrome with development of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: diagnosis and clinical tactics].

The paper describes a case of practically simultaneous development of the hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) and the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) complicated by mesenteric vessel thrombosis and small bowel necrosis. Multimodality treatment comprising volume plasmapheresis, fresh frozen plasma transfusion, hemodialysis, anticoagulant and disaggregant therapy could relieve thrombogenic events, such as pulmonary artery thromboembolism and intestinal necrosis.

[Structural and functional features of the left ventricle in patients with hypertensive form of chronic glomerulonephritis with preserved kidney function].

Remodeling and changes of left ventricular (LV) function objectively characterize effects of arterial hypertension (AH). However, structural and functional state of LV in patients with AH, chronic glomerulonephritis (CGN), and preserved renal function remains virtually unexplored. It was studied by Doppler echo-CG in 136 patients with hypertensive form of CGN to reveal LV hypertrophy, remodeling, systolic and diastolic function.

[Renal monoclonal immunoglobuline deposition disease as a rare variant of renal damage in multiple myeloma].

A case of the immunoglobuline deposit disease diagnosis in MM patient having the symptoms of intensive proteinuria, macrohematuria and terminal renal failure is reported. The disease was diagnosed by the evidence from electron microscopy of the kidney and liver biopsies.

[Use of fractional plasma separation and adsorption (Prometheus technology) in the treatment of acute liver failure].

This paper presents the results of treating 8 patients with acute liver failure, by using the separation and adsorption of fractional plasma (Prometheus technology). Twenty-five procedures lasting 5-6 hours were performed. Anticoagulation with heparin was made under guidance of coagulogram parameters.

[Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in ANCA-associated vasculitis: a course, treatment efficacy, prognosis].

Aim: To study efficacy of ANCA-RPGN treatment with corticosteroids and cyclophosphamide or mycophenolic acid drugs.

Material And Methods: We treated 28 patients (17 males and 11 females aged 19-71 years) with morphologically verified ANCA-associated crescentic RPGN (crescentic median 79 (63:88)%. The patients received corticosteroids and cytostatics.

[Treatment and survival of multiple myeloma patients on programmed hemodialysis].

Aim: To analyse clinical picture of multiple myeloma (MM) and treatment results in MM patients on programmed dialysis (PD).

Materials And Methods: Case histories of 22 MM patients were analysed. They had a terminal stage of chronic renal failure (CRF) in the onset of the disease.

[Influence of small doses human interferon-alpha intranasal injection on behavior of rats of different age].

Behavior of young (3-4 month old) and ageing (12-15 month old) rats was studied during chronic intranasal application of low doses (10 ME or 350 ME) of human interferon-alpha (HIA). In ageing rats HIA did not affect dynamics (days 0th, 8th and 16th) of (a) locomotive and (b) investigative activity in the "open field" test and in two-side defensive conditioning, and (c) decreased anxiety ("open field", "light-darkness" test). In young rats HIA (a) increased locomotive activity by 16th day (it decreased in control), (b) investigative activity did not change (in control it decreased by 8th day; "open field" test), (c) anxiety decreased in the "open field" and increased in "light-darkness" tests, (d) development of conditioned reflex improved (during 2nd learning session in 5 days after the first one).

[Clinicohemadynamic and biochemical the effect of patients with coronary heart disease use combinated lactoovovegetarian diets and simvastatin].

This work is aimed at studying the effect of a lactoovovegetarian antiatherogenic well-balanced diet, combined with the hypolipidemic drug simvastatin, on clinicohemodynamic and biochemical parameters of patients with coronary heart disease and pronounced hypercholesterolemia (TC > 7.8 mmol/l). 43 patients suffering from coronary heart disease, stenocardia under loading (functional classes II-IV) were observed.

[Renal lesion in hemoblastoses].

Aim: To study morphofunctional condition of the kidneys in patients with hematological malignancies.

Material And Methods: Renal function, i.e.

[The treatment of coronary heart disease by beta-adrenoblockers or tiazide diuretics preparation in combination with vegetarian diet].

Work make on 84 patients with coronare heart diseases were divided into two groups, equal quantity. The first groups were given athenolol (50 mg daily), the second--hypotiazide (25 mg daily). In every groupspart patients received an antiatherogenic lactoovovegetetarian diet, part--an standard antiatherogenic diet 10c.