[The diagnosis and treatment of patients with acute intermittent porphyria].

Four patients with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were treated and followed-up. It was established that in AIP urinary pigments have specific absorption spectra in the visible light range. Clinical manifestation and the severity of the disease course correlated with the amount of excretion of copro- and uroporphyrin and their characteristic spectrum of light absorption.

[Experience in attracting co-workers at a department of clinical laboratory diagnosis to diagnostic and therapeutic work].

The experience gained by the Lvov City Clinical Hospital for Emergencies evidences the usefulness of participation of the workers of clinical diagnosis chairs in practical diagnostic and therapeutic work, for it considerably reduces the number of diagnostic errors. The authors consider such cooperation between practicing physicians and laboratory workers (many of them are not physicians) very useful and recommend to change the system of training in laboratory diagnosis at specialized and advanced training courses so that the number of physicians working at clinical diagnosis laboratories be increased.