[The use of immunomodulating therapy as part of complex treatment of secondary peritonitis induces reduction of inflammation in patients of different age].

We present experience of using anti-thymocytic immunoglobulin (ATG) in complex therapy of patients with extensive secondary peritonitis at the age of 29-83 years. The research was based on 60 patient cases: 29 (48%) of whom were given anti-thymocytic immunoglobulin (ATG) Antilymfolin in post operative period and 31 patient of the control group who did not receive immunomodulating therapy within the complex treatment. The received data clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of anti-thymocytic immunoglobulin (ATG) usage for normalization of innate immunity indices and inflammation reduction.

[Assessment of implication of transcranial ultrasonography in the diagnostics of acute disturbances of cerebral blood circulation in adults].

Implication of transcranial ultrasonography (TUS) in diagnostics of acute disturbances of cerebral blood circulation (ADCBC) was studied in 324 subjects, aged from 20 to 83 years, including group I (208 subjects without neurological disturbances), group II (56 subjects without the structural intracranial changes which, along with TUS, underwent MRT), group III (60 patients with diagnosis of ADCBC which underwent TUS and then CT of the brain). The brain areas where intracranial hemorrhages (ICH) were most often localized in hemorrhage stroke (HS) were found in 166 subjects (80%) of group I. The second and third cerebral ventricles were seen in 187 (90%) people.

[Prion diseases: current views].

This is a review of the problem. The above diseases represent a peculiar type of fatal neurodegenerative diseases of man and animals provoker of which is prion--a low molecular anucleinic protein resistant to inactivation. Human prior diseases include fatal familial sleeplessness, Kreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, Gerstmann-Streussler-Sheinker's syndrome, etc.