Efficacy of pharmacopuncture for treating children with physical disabilities in uzbekistan.

Objective: This research was performed to investigate the efficacy of complex rehabilitation combined with pharmacopuncture treatment for the children with neuromotor system diseases.

Methods: Fifty (50) patients aged from 5 to 15 yr old were compared. Twenty (20) patients received conventional treatments and complex rehabilitation as a control group, and fifty (50) patients received complex rehabilitation with pharmacopuncture.

[Study of the microbial spectrum of ulcerative-and-necrotic lesions in gerontological patients with lower limb chronic ischaemia].

The present work deals with a comprehensive study of the microbial spectrum of an ischaemic trophic ulcer in gerontological patients with degree IV lower limb chronic ischaemia in order to improve therapeutic outcomes by means of selecting individual antibacterial therapy for a possible prognosis of the results of treatment for an ulcerative-and-necrotic lesion of distal portions of the lower extremities depending on the spectrum of the microflora vegetating in the wound. Based on examining a total of 130 patients aged 70 years and older suffering from lower limb chronic critical ischaemia, we revealed that the pathogen of secondary wound infection isolated in trophic ulcers of the lower extremities influences the total outcomes of surgical management. A conclusion was made on the necessity of a compulsory dynamic scrutiny of the microbial flora of the lower-limb atherosclerotic ulcer, which makes it possible to carefully select individual antibacterial bactericidal therapy with due regard for microbial sensitivity to bactericidal agents.

[Pyoinflammatory complications of the permanent vascular hemodialysis access].

Of 315 patients with permanent vascular hemodialysis access, 23 (7,3%) patients developed pyoinflammatory complications in various terms after the operation. Angiogenic sepsis was registered in 73,9% of them. Lethality among patients with pyoinflammatory complications of the vascular access was 69,6%.

[Surgical policy in patients aged 70 years and over presenting with grade iv chronic ischaemia of lower limbs].

The present work deals with a currently important problem concerning surgical decision-making in treatment of lower-limb critical ischaemia in elderly and aged people. A total of fifty-three 70-and-more-year-old patients presenting with an ulcerative-and-necrotic lesion of soft tissue of the crus and foot underwent treatment at Hospital of War Veterans No?2. They were subdivided into two groups depending on the level (height) of occlusion, and each of the groups was further subdivided into subgroups of patients subjected to the classical for the given localization of the lesion shunting operations, to compare the latter with less traumatic but at the same time less effective minor and non-anatomical reconstructions.

[Short- and long-term complications of arterial reconstructions in gerontological patients].

The present work deals with analysing complications and causes of their development in the immediate and remote (5-year) period of dispensary follow-up after reconstructive arterial operations interventions in patients aged 70 years old and over, suffering from atherosclerosis obliterans of the lower-limb arteries. Based on considerable clinical material, the authors consider the main vascular, non-vascular and systemic complications, their incidence rate and character, depending upon the type of revascularization of the extremity involved. Also formulated herein are the conclusions on profitability and rationale of a particular surgical policy in treatment for chronic ischaemia of the lower limbs in elderly and aged patients.

[Lower limb distal atherosclerotic gangrene--is high amputation always necessary?].

The results of treatment of patients with systemic atherosclerosis, complicated by foot and ankle soft tissue destruction. The majority of such patients are amenable to an incapacitating operation--a high femoral amputation. The results of arterial reconstructive measures do not always lead to a desirable effect, on the contrary, it can worsen the process and lead to a secondary amputation.

[Surgical treatment of atherosclerotic lower limb ischemia with ulcers and necrotic lesions at the patients aged 70 years and older].

Overall 133 patients aged 70 years and older with critical lower limb ischemia and necrotic lesions were treated. It is demonstrated that arterial reconstructive surgery is the effective method for limb salvage, life prolongation and improvement of life quality.

[Diagnostic and therapeutic policy in gerontological patients with atherosclerotic lesions of lower limb].

Discussed herein are priorities of appropriate application of a special instrumental examination of the arterial bed of the lower extremities in elderly and aged patients presenting with chronic critical ischaemia on the background ofatherosclerosis obliterans. Also analysed are the findings ofan ultrasonographic examination of the lower-limb arterial system as afundamental methodfor diagnosis of an atherosclerotic lesion thereoffollowed by comparing the findings of the preoperative examination with the intraoperative data obtained during revision of the femoropopliteal segment. The obtained results made it possible to formulate conclusions on the preferable use ofultrasonographyfor examining gerontological patients suffering from lower limb chronic critical ischaemia as a simple, rapid, informative, and most importantly, non-invasive method, which is extremely importantfor elderly and aged people.

Reflective light modulator based on epsilon-GaSe crystal.

We report the results of investigating a low-voltage, polarization-insensitive, reflective-type modulator based on an epsilon-GaSe crystal and operated at the 1.960-eV line of a He-Ne laser. We demonstrate that the modulation in an Al-epsilon-GaSe-Cu device results mainly from the Franz-Keldysh effect.

[A method for determining the CO2 released by resting cells of microorganisms during the oxidation of hydrocarbons].

A method is proposed for determining the oxidation of hydrocarbon substrates by microorganisms. The method is based on measuring the evolution of CO2 into the medium when the substrate is oxidized by washed microbial cells adsorbed on a spongy surface and incubated in a closed space into which CO2-free air is passed.

[Biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil inoculated with yeasts].

Yeast species belonging to the Candida genus were added to the greyish-brown soil of the Apsheron Peninsula under laboratory conditions. The rate of CO2 production was used to estimate the degradation of crude oil, paraffin, cycloparaffin and aromatic hydrocarbons as well as their oxidized products. The rate of hydrocarbon degradation in the soil inoculated with yeast cells was shown to drop down gradually.

[Role of yeasts of the genus Candida in the transformation of the hydrocarbon energy in oil-contaminated gray-brown soil].

Energy transformation was studied in the processes of hydrocarbon metabolism by microorganisms in oil-contaminated grey-brown soil. For such microbial populations as Candida species which use hydrocarbon substrates only as an energy source but not for growth, the criteria of biomass or incidence are presumed to have a relative significance for revealing the comparative functional role of these populations in the self-purification of oil-contaminated soils. Therefore, it is necessary to simultaneously assay both the incidence and the functional activity of microorganisms expressed in terms of respiration intensity.

[Aromatic hydrocarbons as enzyme inducers of cleavage of the aromatic ring in Candida guilliermondii].

Monocyclic and dicyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, toluene and 2-methylnaphthalene, can induce pyrocatechate-1,2-oxygenase in Candida guilliermondii BKM Y-916 cells. The enzyme is active at pH 7.0.