[Sperm characterization in patients with diabetes mellitus suffering from sexual disorders].

A total of 54 male patients suffering from type I and II diabetes mellitus of different gravity were investigated. A higher percentage of immobile and pathological types of spermatozoa was revealed in patients with a severe type of diabetes mellitus.

[Hypothalamo-mesencephalic crises in endocrine diseases].

Altogether 261 patients with different vegetative crises were investigated by clinico-neurologic, electro-, rheo-, echoencephalographic methods. The most frequent causes of crises (in 140 patients) were disorders of the hypothalamic and hypothalamo-mesencephalic sections of the brain. In the rest of the patients crises were caused by neuroses, disorders of the caudal zones of the brain stem and temporal region, pheochromocytoma, insulinoma, primary hyperaldosteronism, hypoparathyroidism and other diseases.

[Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism combined with anosmia (Kallmann's syndrome)].

Diagnosis in Kallmann's syndrome is often erroneous and results in the administration of inadequate therapy. The aim of the study was to define characteristic features of a course of disease and to administer adequate therapy. It has been established that cases of Kallmann's syndrome are rather frequent.

[Lipid peroxidation and anti-oxidative systems of an organism in experimental streptococcal myocarditis and rheumocarditis].

Lipid peroxidation rate and activity of glutathione and tocopherol antioxidant systems were studied in rats with experimental streptococcal myocarditis and in patients with rheumatic carditis. During the acute period of inflammation content of diene conjugates and activity of glutathione reductase were increased in myocardium and erythrocytes of rats simultaneously with a decrease in tocopherol concentration in blood plasma. In the patients with rheumatic carditis activation of lipid peroxidation and the glutathione reductase was found in erythrocytes as well as a decrease of the tocopherol content--in blood plasma.

[Diagnostic value of the luliberin test with patients with polycystic ovaries].

Gonadotropic function was investigated and the diagnostic value of the test with luteinizing hormone releasing factor (LHRF) was assessed in patients with polycystic ovaries. For this purpose a 100 micrograms dose of LHRF was intravenously jet injected to 10 patients with nonspecific polycystic ovaries. Levels of luteinizing and follicle stimulating hormones (LH and FSH) were determined before the injection and 15, 30, 60, 90 or 120 minutes after it.

[Lactotropic and thyrotropic functions of the hypophysis in polycystic ovary syndrome].

An increase in the prolactin basal level was detected in 8 out of 50 patients with ovarian polycystosis. A test with TRH and a simultaneous determination of the levels of prolactin, TTH, T3, T4 were used in 25 patients, of them a hyperergic reaction of prolactin to TRH was detected in 5. A correlation analysis of function of the thyroid was performed.

[Directed percutaneous punctures of pathological liver foci controlled by computed tomography and ultrasound].

In 42 patients with various diseases of the liver 45 aimed percutaneous biopsies were performed. The morphological diagnosis of the disease was verified in 38 of the 42 examined patients (90.5%).

[Spot percutaneous biopsy of the pancreas monitored by computer tomography and ultrasonic examination].

The authors analyse the results of the use of modern methods of morphological verification of a diagnosis in 23 patients with different diseases of the pancreas. The patients were subjected to 26 spot transcutaneous biopsies verified by computer-aided tomography or ultrasonic exploration. The morphological diagnosis was verified in 20 out of the 23 examinees (87%).

[Optimal methods of the physical rehabilitation of patients with chronic ischemic heart disease with rhythm disorders].

A study of 186 coronary patients with rhythm disturbance has shown that early incorporation of the elements of physical rehabilitation in combined treatment improves functioning of all the links of the blood circulation system, helps to raise cardiac rhythm stability and reduces the period of patients' stay in hospital.

[Antioxidant systems of erythrocytes in rheumatism].

Patients with inactive and active rheumatic fever were examined for the intensity of lipid peroxidation of red blood cell membranes, lipid antioxidant system of tocopherol, non-lipid system of glutathione and related total activity of the pentosophosphate pathway of carbohydrate metabolism in red blood cells. It was established that activation of rheumatic process is accompanied by a increase in the content of diene conjugates in lipids of red blood cell membranes, a reduction of the tocopherol content in blood plasma, activation of glutathione reductase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase with the lowering of the total activity of the pentose cycle in red blood cells. The characteristics under study depended to a lesser degree on circulation insufficiency.