[COVID-19 associated sino-orbital mucormycosis].

Objective: To analyze the dynamics of symptoms in patients with COVID-19 associated sino-orbital mucormycosis.

Material And Methods: We describe a series of 13 patients with COVID-19 associated sino-orbital mucormycosis aged 43 to 80 years diagnosed from August to October 2021. All of the patients had a severe disease and required noninvasive ventilation or intubation and administration of dexamethasone.

[Traumatic perilymphatic fistula with the luxation of the stapes into vestibule].

A case of perilymphatic fistula with the luxation of the stapes into vestibule was described, which was caused by a direct damage of the eardrum (the patient cleaned the right ear with a cotton swab and received a strong blow to the arm). The moment of injury was characterized by severe pain, a significant hearing loss, the appearance of tympanophonia and vertigo. Clinical examination revealed the eardrum rupture.

[Tuberculous lesion of retropharyngeal lymph nodes responsible for labored nasal breathing].

A 62 year-old patient applied for the medical aid with complaints of labored nasal breathing. She was treated for tuberculosis in the childhood, underwent radical mastectomy in connection with left breast cancer in 2007 and adenotomy at the age of 60 years with the good functional outcome. One year after adenotomy, the enlargement of lymph nodes at the left-hand antero-lateral surface of the neck was detected.

[CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS WITH SYMPTOMATIC HYPERTROPHIC GINGIVITIS: CASE REPORT AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE].

Gingivitis in traditional national dentistry referred to independent diseases or symptomatic condition in periodontitis and classified morphologically. The diagnostic features of the diseases are characteristic, but the clinical presentation of symptomatic gingivitis and patterns of bone destructions may vary between patients. Successful treatment of the disease depends from proper diagnosis and advanced disease stages, but for symptomatic gingivitis that accompanying chronic periodontitis, protocols include surgical excision.

[Complex influence of chemo- and ozonotherapy on the immunity of patients with destructive pulmonary tuberculosis].

The impact of standardized antimycobacterial treatment versus a complex combination of chemo- and ozonotherapy on the T and B links and specific antituberculous immunity was studied in patients with destructive pulmonary tuberculosis. A course of ozonotherapy was performed in the early intensive phase of antimycobacterial therapy via endovascular injection of ozonized 0.9% NaCl solution.