Combination of community acquired pneumonia with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: clinical peculiarities, production of active oxygen forms, general antioxidant blood status.

Aim: The objective is to study clinical peculiarities, production of active oxygen forms and general antioxidant blood status in patients with community acquired pneumonia and in its combination with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Materials And Methods: 59 patients hospitalized in patient department took part in the study. The first group included 32 patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP).

[Albumin differentiation by isoelectric focusing in patients with liver cirrhosis].

In patients with cirrhosis of the liver, there is noted a striking imbalance in the distribution of isoelectric fractions of serum albumin in the isoelectric field. Disproportion in isoelectric fractions of serum albumin can, we believe, be referred to functional loads on albumin relative to fixation and transport of surplus of bilirubin and ammonia. In the ascitic fluid, there comes to be seen, in fact, a reversal of imbalance of pH-dependent fractions of albumin,--probably, due to "purification" in the lymphatic system and partly in the functioning hepatocytes.

[Experience in the use of streptodecase in the treatment of intraocular hemorrhage].

Addition of streptodecase to combined therapy of intraocular hemorrhages, mainly of vascular origin, in 37 patients improved the treatment efficacy. This manifested by a noticeable improvement of the vision acuity and by a more marked and complete resorption of the hemorrhages. The results were better if the drug was administered in the earliest periods of the disease.

[Expert system of choosing lower limb (thigh) prosthesis and diagnosis of the quality of prosthetics (II)].

The authors review an expert system (ES) of diagnosing the prosthetics quality, elucidate problems of the ES functioning within the framework of the general ES. Special attention is paid to the description of the knowledge and datum surface, to the algorithms of direct and reverse illegible logical data output in taking decisions as to defects of the patient's prosthesis in accordance with the signs observable. The work of the ES is demonstrated with special reference to concrete cases.

[An expert system for choosing prostheses for the lower extremities (hip) and assessing the quality of the prosthesis. I].

The authors describe the structure, characteristic features and experience gained with the employment of an expert system for the choice of hip prostheses (in cases of unilateral amputation) and assessment of the prosthetics quality. Word the requirements for hardware and software, present functional subsystems corresponding to certain interrelated stages of prosthetics. A variant has been devised of an appropriate training expert system with a profound representation of intelligence in an object area.