[Role of leukocyte adhesion in filterability of blood cell suspensions].

We investigated blood cells suspension filterability of 16 donors. The filtration was performed trough 5 microns-pore nuclear filters at constant perfusion pressure 10(5) din/cm2. We estimated also the adherence of leukocytes and platelets on nylon.

[Pathogenesis of lower limb diabetic angiopathies in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus].

Some indices of the system of homeostasis, lipid metabolism, lipid peroxidation (LPO), the levels of IRI, C-peptide, glycosylated Hb and glycemia (on an empty stomach) were investigated in 131 patients with noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus (the patients ranged in age from 40 to 60). Correlation analysis has shown that derangements in the system of homeostasis, lipid metabolism and LPO are correlated and interrelated, resulting in disorder of the arterial blood flow in the lower limbs and hence to the development and progression of diabetic angiopathies. The authors have proposed a scheme of LPO involvement in the development of lower limb diabetic angiopathies.

[Leukocyte filterability in whole blood].

There was investigated the leukocyte and erythrocyte filtration in blood of 25 donors men. The blood filtration was performed through 5 m pores of nuclear filters at constant perfusion pressure 100 cm H2O. Erythrocytes didn't influence on the leukocyte filtration in blood.

[The possible pathways for the formation of a pool of an acid-soluble blood plasma fraction in patients with diffuse suppurative peritonitis].

In patients with diffuse purulent peritonitis, the total pool of an acid-soluble blood plasma fraction (ABPF) considerably increases as compared to that in normals (donors). The present paper is concerned with the role of proteolytic activity and lysis of bacterial cells and cells of different human tissues in the formation of the ABPF in patients with peritonitis. For this purpose the normals' blood and its separate components were treated with various enzymes (trypsin, pronase, chemotrypsin, papain, elastase, alpha-amylase) to measure the ABPF.

[Blood plasma amino acids and total protein, their elimination and catabolism during the hemofiltration of patients with acute kidney failure].

Intermittent hemofiltration (HF) was applied to the treatment of 8 patients (3 men and 5 women) with the grave pattern of acute renal failure (ARF) of prerenal origin. Altogether 23 sessions (from one to six in every patient) were performed with replacement of 44.3 +/- 2.