[Evaluating efficiency of combined vaccination against influenza and pneumococcal infection in workers of "Gazprom transgaz Yekaterinburg" company].

Influenza-like diseases are among the causes of disability. Risk of these diseases is increased with other occupational hazards. The study covered efficiency of combined vaccination against influenza (annually, over 2 years, with inactivated split-vaccine Vaxigrip) and pneumococcal infection (single, with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine Pneumo 23) in 318 workers of Neviansk branch of "Gazprom transgaz Yekaterinburg" company.

[Possibilities of endoscopic surgery in treatment of chronic venous insufficiency of the lower extremities].

The authors present their experiences with endoscopic dissection of perforating veins in patients with severe forms of chronic venous insufficiency with special reference to the peculiarities of blood supply of the extremity superficial tissue. The generalized morphological description of the perforating arteriovenous structures of the leg is presented as a vascular formation including the arteries and veins put in the general connective-tissue vagina and beginning from the profound or/and muscular veins and arteries. Operations were made on 56 patients aged 25-76 years, 40 of them had postthrombotic disease, 16 - varicose disease.