A case of phlegmonous gastritis diagnosed by echography.

Relying on their experience of revealing phlegmonous gastritis in a female patient aged 44, the authors suggest to use abdominal echography to diagnose this urgent condition in the screening of acute inflammatory abdominal diseases, leaning upon echographic evidence of hollow organ damages, which are noted in inflammatory and blastomatous gastric wall infiltration and leaving the last word to complete evaluation of clinical, echographic and laboratory data.

[The role of serotonin, histamine and the kallikrein-kinin system in the pathogenesis of asphyxic attacks in bronchial asthma].

Altogether 300 patients suffering from bronchial asthma were examined for serotonin metabolism, the kallikrein-kinin system and histamine. A study was also made of the information relations of the indicated parameters to diverse groups of the signs using Shannon's technique. It has been revealed that serotonin and the kallikrein-kinin system are of importance in the pathogenesis of changes in the efficacy of the diffusion lung capacity in severe bronchial asthma.

[Role of eosinophils in the pathogenesis of bronchial asthma].

Analysis is made of the results of a comprehensive examination of 313 bronchial asthma patients. The examination included the revealing of the information relations of the absolute count of blood eosinophils, their changes after administration of a standard dose of adrenaline, the eosinophil count in sputum and bronchial secretion. Significant information relations with the build-up parameters, alterations in bronchial patency, a number of immunological and biochemical characteristics were discovered.