[Acute leukemia with blasts in the shape of a hand mirror].

The paper is concerned with a rare case of myeloblastosis with blasts in the form of a hand mirror in the bone marrow. The treatment turned out ineffective. The author provided literature data on the causes of occurrence, unusual blast shape, the frequency and types of leukemia, reactions to therapy and a course of disease in patients with blasts of such a shape.

[Diabetic angiopathies and ketoacidosis].

The role of ketoacidotic conditions in the occurrence of diabetic angiopathies and influence of the latter on the occurrence and development of ketoacidosis in patients with diabetic vascular lesions was studied. Altogether 1152 diabetes mellitus patients were examined. It was established that abrupt fluctuations of glycemia in labile forms of diabetes with a tendency toward ketoacidosis resulted in a more noticeable vascular lesion.