[Diagnosis of pharyngeal and laryngeal diphtheria in adults].

142 adults with pharyngeal and laryngeal diphtheria were registered in Yekaterinburg in 1993. Of them, 136 patients recovered and 6 died. The analysis of the clinical features and diagnostic errors showed that subjects with chronic visceral diseases and alcoholics are more likely to have poor prognosis of diphtheria.

[The serum immunoglobulin E level and the endocrine activity of the stomach, duodenum and pancreas after recovery from opisthorchiasis].

Serum IgE level and blood levels of gastrin, insulin, C peptide and glucagon have been studied in 34 patients with chronic opisthorchiasis (18 females and 16 males aged 36.5 +/- 2.6 years) prior to treatment and 10 days, 6 months and 12 months after recovery from the invasion.

[The secretory activity of the stomach, duodenum and pancreas in patients with chronic opisthorchiasis].

Serum IgE, gastrin, and insulin levels were measured by radioimmunoassay and gastric secretion was studied by the method of submaximal histamine stimulation in 59 inhabitants of Sverdlovsk and 51 former inhabitants of Tyumen Province, who had chronic opisthorchiasis. In the hypoendemic focus, increased IgE content was observed mostly in young people, and in the hyperendemic focus it was in middle-aged and old people, this parameter correlating with decreased levels of gastrin and insulin in the serum. Gastric basal acid secretion was decreased in more than 70% patients from the both groups.