[Optimization of education for laparoendoscopic technologies in Ukraine].

International experience of training of surgeons, including urologists, in laparoendoscopic technologies, was analyzed. Practical course "The Fundamentals of aparoscopic Surgery" (FLS) and the European program of education for basic laparoscopic urologic skills (E-BLUS), which are used in specialized centers, constitute a standard programs of development of basic endosurgical skills. Such centers in Ukraine are absent.

[Microtranscutaneous nephrolithotripsy--new possibilities in treatment of patients, suffering urolithic disease].

The results of a new method of laser microtranscutaneous puncture nephrolithotripsy application in patients, suffering nephrolithiasis, including it, occuring on background of the ureteropelvic segment stricture and formation of hydronephrosis, were analyzed. The method application permits to lower significantly or eliminate the roentgen burden on patient and surgeon. The laser microtranscutaneous puncture nephrolithotripsy is less traumatic, than a standard transcutaneous puncture nephrolithotripsy and retroperitoneal endovideoscopic pyelolithotomy.

[Outstanding domestic surgeon Vladimir Nikolayevich Shamov and his contribution to the development of the study of the blood transfusion (the 130th anniversary of his birth and the 50th anniversary of his death)].

The article is devoted to the memory of the outstanding domestic surgeon, Honoured Science Worker of the Ukrainian SSR, academician of the AMS of the USSR, who headed the Department of the Faculty Surgery of the Kharkov Medical Institute during 16 years (1923-1939), his name is associated with the development of the blood transfusion in our country.

[P. I. Shatilov--original domestic clinician, scientist and teacher, one of the first editors of medical journal "Vrachebnoe Delo"].

The article tells about life and activity of original domestic clinician, scientist and teacher, one of the first managing editors of medical journal "Vrachebnoe Delo". P. I.

[Identification of the agents of coccidioidomycosis using polymerase chain reaction].

Two pairs of primers for diagnosis of coccidioidomycosis using the method of PCR were constructed. One pair was used for identification of the two species of Coccidioides (C. immitis and C.

[Cryodestruction of the anterior lobe of adenohypophysis in terminal patients with prostatic cancer].

The authors used a new method of treatment of prostatic cancer--selective stereotactic puncture cryodestruction of the anteriod hypophysis lobe--which prevents water-electrolyte imbalance, relieves pain syndrome due to bone metastases, reduces androgenic stimulation of the prostate, improves quality of life for patients of clinical group IV. The operation is low-traumatic and is not accompanied with serious complications.

[The isolation of monoclonal antibodies to Cryptococcus neoformans antigens].

In this work conditions for the reproduction of hybridoma technology, specially adapted to C. neoformans, for obtaining monoclonal hybridomas (McAb) to diagnostically significant antigens of C. neoformans, the infective agent of cryptococcosis, are presented.

[The action of bacillary inhibitory substances on human-pathogenic, phytopathogenic and saprotrophic fungi].

The study has shown that the growth of many soil fungi is inhibited by the effect of substances which are produced into the environment by some bacilli-saprotrophs. Besides, these substances can bring about a dimorphism of the Trichoderma, Blastomyces, Emmonsia, Alternaria and Verticillium fungi from the mycelial form into the yeast form, which results in the death of the fungi. The existence of bacilli capable of producing the inhibitory substances, in the soil in the territory of the USSR may explain, to a certain extent, the absence of the coccidioidomycosis and North American blastomycosis agents pathogenic for people and many animals.

[Dimorphism in the fungus Coccidioides immitis Rixford et Gilchrist under the action of saprophytic bacilli].

It is shown that there are specific substances produced and secreted into the environment by saprotrophic bacilli. These inhibit the growth of the coccidioidal fungus in its mycelial form and some cells are converted into the yeast form, which leads to the destruction of the fungi (in natural environment) or, if the conditions allow, to their growth in the yeast form. This phenomenon, existence of a large amount of bacilli antagonistic to Coccidioides immitis, may be one of reasons why the latter has not been isolated so far from the soil in the territory of the USSR.

[Puncture scrotostomy--a treatment method in acute inflammatory diseases of the scrotal organs].

A method for the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases of the scrotal organs by means of puncture scrotostomy, which consists in passing the indwelling micro-irrigator into a cavity of the serous sheath of the testis and epididymis and administration via this route of antibacterial and resolving preparations for 4-5 days, is suggested. A method approved in treatment of 45 patients permits to avoid surgical intervention, and is highly effective.