[Relative number of B-lymphocytes in endocrine opthalmopathy in patients with diffuse toxic goiter].

The number of B-lymphocytes was counted in 69 patients with diffuse toxic goiter (DTG) using a new method. The relative number of B-lymphocytes was investigated before therapy, one year and 2 years after it. The patients were divided into 2 groups (48 patients with endocrine ophthalmopathy and 39 patients without it).

[The clinical picture, hormonal disorders and humoral immunity in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis].

Altogether 93 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis were investigated. A great variability of the functional clinical symptomatology (from thyrotoxicosis up to manifest hypothyroidism) was revealed. Subclinical hypothyroidism was detected in a majority of patients.

[Vitamin E and malondialdehyde in the blood serum of thyrotoxicosis patients].

The concentrations of vitamin E and malonic dialdehyde (MDA) were investigated in the blood serum of 146 patients with diffuse goiter of various degree of severity and in 35 controls with diffuse and nodular goiter without thyroid dysfunction. Vitamin E and MDA concentrations in patients with mild thyrotoxicosis did not differ from that in the controls. Vitamin E concentrations in patients with moderate and severe types of thyrotoxicosis were notably decreased and MDA concentration was elevated.

[A program for the prevention of diabetes mellitus in Lithuania].

The Programme on Diabetes Mellitus Control is a constituent part of Integrated Programme on Chronic Non-infectious Diseases Control. The epidemiological evidence has demonstrated the high prevalence of deranged carbohydrate metabolism in the republic. Registers of carbohydrate metabolism disorders were created for the children's population of the Republic and the adult population of Kaunas and two agricultural-industrial regions.

[Effect of therapy on the levels of immunoreactive calcitonin and parathormone in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis].

Altogether 18 female patients and one male patient with autoimmune thyroiditis aged 17 to 57 were investigated before and during thyroidin therapy. A basal raised level of immunoreactive calcitonin (iCT) was revealed in 4 patients, that of immunoreactive parathormone (iPTH) in 11 patients. The authors discussed the causes of the elevation of iCT and iPTH levels in patients with autoimmune thyroiditis.

[Effect of human somatotropin on metabolism in hypothalamo-hypophyseal nanism patients].

The effect of pharmacopoeic human somatotropin (HS) produced by the Kaunas plant of endocrine preparations, on the proteic, lipid, carbohydrate and mineral metabolism was studied in 40 patients with hypothalamohypophyseal nanism (HHN). The experiments were performed before treatment on an empty stomach, 4 hs after HS administration in a dose of 4 I. U.

[Performing and interpretating the glucose tolerance test].

Certain conditions like drug use, diet, physical activity, etc., must be adhered to while running the glucose tolerance test. The Second WHO Expert Committee on Diabetes Mellitus (1979) suggested that the oral glucose tolerance test should be carried out with 75 g of glucose (for children 1.

[Clinical use of Soviet-made human somatotropin preparation. 1. Dynamics of physical development].

Human somatotropin preparation made in the USSR was used under clinical conditions. Treatment was instituted to 28 patients with various forms of nanism; observation period--up to 18 months. The preparation proved to be effective in hyposomatotropic hypophysial and cerebral nanism.