[An evaluation of the effect of magnetic-laser therapy on external respiratory function in complicated forms of acute pneumonia in children].

The authors studied the effects of magnetic laser therapy (MLT) on external respiration, blood transport of gas and clinical course of acute destructive pneumonia in children aged 1-12 years. It was established that energy of infrared laser combined with magnetic field reduces the severity of acute respiratory insufficiency, treatment course, prevents destructive complications in children with infiltrative acute destructive pneumonia.

[The effect of infusion therapy on the ventilation-gas exchange function of the lung during acute destructive pneumonia in young children].

It has been established that respiratory failure in young children with destructive acute pneumonia was enhanced upon intravenous correction of homeostasis disturbances with daily physiological volume repletion. Combined enteral-parenteral correction of homeostasis disturbances was an alternative technique.

[Clinical and diagnostic value of complex examination of the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in nonspecific inflammatory lung diseases in children].

A study was made of the results of cytological, cytochemical (determination of the ratio of ethidium bromide extinction and NTB test) and microbiological studies of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in 125 children with acute pneumonia and 347 with chronic nonspecific inflammatory pulmonary diseases. It has been revealed that all-round studies permit defining the type and activity of endobronchitis together with the status of the ventilated alveolar tissue. Acute pneumonia is marked by catarrhal process with highly active inflammation of bacterial nature, whereas chronic nonspecific inflammatory diseases by purulent endobronchitis.

[Aerosol pulmobronchoscintigraphy in the diagnosis of chronic lung diseases in children].

The authors presented some data on possibilities of a comprehensive study of permeability of the bronchopulmonary structures, ventilation and the pulmonary-capillary blood flow of the lungs in children and adolescents using aerosol pulmobronchoscintigraphy with 99mTc-pertechnetate aerosol for which purpose a special MEDI-61 apparatus was employed for the first time. A total of 100 patients were examined, of them 25 by using 2 methods. Proceeding from an analysis of the results of the comprehensive study of children and adolescents with chronic pulmonary diseases it has been concluded that this method is objective, informative and provides exhaustive information on the state of bronchial permeability and pulmonary-capillary blood flow.