[The possibility of immunocorrection in spinal-spinal cord trauma by using intravenous laser irradiation].

The natural defense factors of the body and the cell factors of immunity were studied in 60 patients with acute and early spinal trauma. Immunodeficiency develops in 100% of cases with acute and early spinal trauma. Blood intravenous laser radiation at wave lengths of 632 and 830 nm was shown to produce an immunostimulating effect.

[Changes in the cellular immunity factors in suppurative complications of penetrating craniocerebral trauma].

The authors examined patients with penetrating cerebrocranial trauma (CCT) and uneventful course of traumatic disease (30) and those with CCT complicated by intracranial purulent process (24 persons). A direct correlation of the marked character and severity of the clinical course of the posttraumatic period and the changes in the immune system was revealed. Increase of the level of neutrophil rosette formation, indices of the NST test, the activity and intensity of neutrophil phagocytosis in penetrating CCT allows the development of an intracranial purulent process to be predicted at an early stage before the appearance of clinical sings.

[The experimental and clinical use of gelatin sponges with kanamycin and gentamycin for the prevention and treatment of suppurative complications in neurosurgery].

Antiseptic gelatin sponges with kanamycin and gentamicin, which were studied in experiments on animals and used in the clinic, are a reliable measure for the prevention of suppuration in craniocerebral surgery in planned operations and in combination with debridement in penetrating injury of the skull and brain. For therapeutic purposes, local application of the agents is effective in focal suppurative processes in the skull and brain after surgical debridement of the purulent focus (abscess of the brain, osteomyelitis of the skull, etc.).