[The systemic and local immune responses in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis depending on hepatitis C viral infection (HCV)].

The systemic and local immune response was studied in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis and the significance of the combined infection with HCV. To investigation were submitted 23 patients (16 males and 7 females) aged between 29 and 61 years with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Of them 14 were anti-HCV(+) and 9 anti-HCV(-).

[Treatment of patients with postmenopausal and steroid-induced osteoporosis using sodium fluoride combined with vitamin D2 and calcium gluconate].

9 patients with postmenopausal and 5 patients with steroid-induced osteoporosis, mean age 57.9 +/- 7.76 years, were treated in the course of one year with sodium fluoride (Fluosen) in a dose of 45 mg/24 h in combination with calcium gluconate (2 g/24 h) and oil solution of vit D2 (2 mg/week).

[The chologon-sorbitol functional test under ultrasonic control in pathology of the gallbladder and biliary tract].

The degree of the filling up and the dilation of the gall bladder, its functional state as well as the passibility of d. cysticus are evaluated by ultrasound examination and computer determination of the surface and dimensions of the gall bladder. 546 patients, 20-78 years of age (484 women and 62 men) were examined by a pharmacodynamic functional test with chologon (acidum dehydrocholicum) in a dose of 10 mg/kg body mass and sorbitol (in 116 patients) in a dose of 20 g in 100 ml of water.

[The Dubin-Johnson syndrome].

Three cases of Dubin-Johnson syndrome in close relatives--brother, sister and a brother's son--are reported. The clinical characteristics, evolution, diagnostic and differential diagnostic problems as well as the treatment and prognosis of the disease are pointed out.