[New opportunities for complex treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis in HIV-infected patients in the later stages of the disease].

Unlabelled: Treatment of recurrent oropharyngeal candidiasis (OPC) in HIV-infected patients is a serious clinical problem due to the emergence of resistant Candida strains, the risk of invasive disease, and high economic costs, which warrants the need for new treatment regimens.

Aim: To improve the treatment regimen of OPC in the later stages of HIV infection by combining the complex herbal medicinal product Tonsilgon N with fluconazole and evaluate the effectiveness of this combination.

Materials And Methods: A comparative randomized clinical study included 65 patients divided into observation and comparison groups, receiving fluconazole plus Tonsilgon H and fluconazole monotherapy, respectively, for 7 days.

[Morphological characteristics of Palatine tonsils candidiasis in the late stages of HIV-infection].

Candida lesion of Palatine tonsils was studied in 32 HIV-infected patients in the late stages of the disease using histological and cytological methods. There were used conventional methods during pathomorphological studies of palatine tonsils tissue fragments obtained by biopsy, and smears from the surface of the organ. It was found that micromycetes spp.

[The clinical and microbiological characteristics of oropharyngeal candidiasis in the HIV-infected patients at the late stages of the disease].

Oropharyngeal candidiasis in 512 HIV-infected patients at the late stages of the disease was studied with special reference to the clinical and microbiological characteristics of this condition. The diagnosis was established based on the results of the clinical and microbiological examination of the patients including investigation of the tissue samples taken from the oral cavity and the throat with the use of the device specially developed for this purpose. It was shown that the disease existed in various clinical forms the most common of which were monocomponent pathology represented by pseudomembranous candidiasis in 37.

[Characterization of contamination of hematology hospital environmental objects with micromycetes].

The paper presents of laboratory studies of the environmental objects in the hematology unit of a multidisciplinary hospital for micromycetes. Its air was found to be highly contaminated with mold fungi (85.4 ± 5.

[The structure of urological disorders in athletes].

According to the data of preventive medical examinations since the end of 2009 to April 2012, data on the urological incidence in 654 athletes surveyed during this period were collected and analyzed. Among the diseases identified in athletes, the main place is occupied by varicocele (5.35%), urethritis (5.