[Assessment of the level of immunoglobulin E in patients with pyo-inflammatory diseases and its influence on the course of the infectious process].

The level of immunoglobulin E (IgE) in patients with different pyo-inflammatory diseases was assessed and it was found to elevate in patients with acute appendicitis in 49% of cases, in patients with chronic relapsing furunculosis (CRF) in 41%, with chronic osteomyelitis--in 66.6%. In 8 out of 16 examined patients with the elevated level of IgE there were antibodies to toxocars in titers 1:800, 1:400.

[Content of total immunoglobulin E in patients with acute appendicitis].

The authors investigated the content of total immunoglobulin E in 34 patients with different forms of acute appendicitis. Higher level of immunoglobulin E was revealed in 19 patients. All the patients had destructive forms of appendicitis, in the third of the patients they were complicated by the development of local peritonitis or by spread of the inflammation outside the appendix.

[The morphological characteristics of the fibromyalgia syndrome].

A histological and ultrastructural study of dense foci characteristics for soft tissues in fibromyalgia syndrome revealed that they consist of rough fibrillar connective tissue frequently hyalinized. Vascularization occurred at the periphery of these foci only where thin nervous fibrils and sometimes small paraganglia were seen. Severe degenerative changes of the collagen fibers, marked decrease and degeneration of fibroblasts were found electron microscopically.

[Blood cell catecholamines during different methods of postoperative analgesia].

Blood cell catecholamine levels were measured in the patients over the course of the postoperative period administered various types of analgesia, the standard mode with narcotic analgetics and the method suggested by the authors, consisting in blocking of the afferent nervous painful pulsation via the anterior abdominal wall. The blocking is carried out with a micro-irrigator placed in the muscular layer of the anterior abdominal wall during surgery. Procaine solution was employed for anesthesia.