[Sarcoidosis: 25-year clinical follow-up].

Based on the follow-up of 1,600 patients with sarcoidosis from 1971 to 1996, the authors analyzed the value of various methods for identifying the disease, the frequency and nature of misdiagnoses. They showed the efficiency of basic treatments in patients with sarcoidosis: corticosteroidal hormones, nonhormonal antiinflammatory drugs, plasmapheresis, and physiotherapy. Recurrencies and progression were seen in 23.

[Eosinophilic pneumonia: course and prognosis].

Clinical manifestations of eosinophilic pneumonia (EP) are characterized basing on examination of 40 patients aged 19-65 years. The disease arose primarily due to chemicals, first of all, to medicinal agents. Eosinophils were found in peripheral blood, on cytogram of bronchoalveolar lavage, lung biopsies.

[Clinical aspects and course of extrapulmonary sarcoidosis].

Follow-up results (3-15 years) are available for 95 patients with extrapulmonary sarcoidosis. The disease presented with multiple lesions and recurrent course. Peripheral lymph nodes were the most frequent location.

[The potentialities and results of the etiologic diagnosis of acute pneumonias].

The paper deals with the results of the joint Soviet-Hungarian study for the determination of etiology of acute pneumonias. Study included 617 patients. The bacteriologic and serologic methods were used to reveal the causative agent of the disease.

[Transfusion therapy of traumatic shock using plasma substitutes oxyamal and volecam].

The work is devoted to the investigation of efficiency of antishock transfusion therapy by new soviet drugs on the basis of hydroxyethyl starch--Oxyamal and Volecam. The investigation was performed on 30 patients with trauma shock and hypovolemic syndrome. The clinico-laboratory data obtained have shown that transfusion of Oxyamal and Volecam allow to rapidly normalize disturbed parameters of the central hemodynamics and continuously maintain them at the due level.