[The effect of hemosorption on the glycoprotein concentration of the blood serum in inflammatory diseases of the large intestine].

71 patients with nonspecific diseases of the colon were examined before and after hemosorption for concentrations of seromucoid, orosomucoid, immunoglobulins G,M,A, C3 and C4 complement component fractions, haptoglobin, ceruloplasmin, alpha 1-antitrypsin, C-reactive protein, properdin, transferrin. It was found that hemosorption results in lowering of all the above concentrations in nonspecific ulcerative colitis, except seromucoid and orosomucoid in moderate and acute colitis. In response to hemosorption serum glycoproteins levels varied with the disease severity, its duration and metabolic activity of the liver.

[Middle molecule levels in patients with spinal cord trauma].

The levels of medium-weight molecules was estimated in the serum of 46 patients, including 36 patients with cerebrospinal injury and 10 patients with craniocerebral injury, 5 healthy volunteers were in the control group. The toxic metabolites studied were markedly increased in all these patients as compared with the controls. However, the highest alterations were detected in the patients with cerebrospinal injury in early periods of observation, thus suggesting that the trauma and duration might be responsible for intoxication manifestations.

[Problems of rehabilitating reconvalescents at industrial enterprises with a new economic mechanism].

The paper deals with the problem of rehabilitation of reconvalescents working at industrial enterprises. The most complicated and inadequately elaborated issues of this problem are those of rational employment and labour prognosis for reconvalescents. The so-called workshops of health established at industrial enterprises promoted the reduction in disease relapses, the decrease of disability and improvement of workers' health, however, with the transition to new economic methods of management many enterprises ceased to function.

[Improving health services for industrial workers].

The purpose of the present sociohygienic study is to improve a system approach to the problem of workers' health protection at industrial enterprises. The methods of sociological investigations, organisational experiment, system analysis, modelling, and health statistics were used. The improved system of workers' health protection was developed, tested in the course of organizational experiment and implemented at the industrial enterprises which resulted in the reduction of temporary disability, occupational accidents and diseases.

Efficiency of hemosorption in treatment of patients with ulcerative colitis.

One hundred and seven sessions of hemosorption were performed on 77 patients with severe ulcerative colitis. Clinically, improvement was demonstrated in the reduction of the signs of intoxication in 50 to 60 per cent of patients. Combination of hemosorption and anti-inflammatory medication allowed to achieve a remission or a marked improvement determined by clinical observation or endoscopy of 39 from 52 patients with a severe, total form of the disease, whereas toxic influence of sulfasalazine was controlled and extra-intestinal complications were weakened in 8 patients from 11.