[Peculiarities of inflammatory intoxication syndrome in elderly patients with extrahospital pneumonia].

The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical and diagnostical features of extrahospital pneumonia (EHP) in elderly patients to optimize their complex medical providence under the conditions of a pulmonological department. In particular, the authors studied the manifestations of endogenous inflammatory intoxication syndrome (EIIS). The subjects, 142 elderly patients (more than 60 years of age) with EHP, and the controls, 125 patients under 40, were treated in the Pulmonology Department, Burdenko Military Hospital, in 2002-2004.

[Community pneumonia in recruits: the algorithm of complex two-staged rehabilitation treatment].

The program of complex recovery therapy and medical rehabilitation (MR) for treating the patients with mild form of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is presented. 89 servicemen-recruits with CAP mild form treated during 2003-2005 in the Field Therapy Clinic of Saratov Military Medical Institute were investigated. MR was conducted on the basis of medical station (MS) and lasted for 15 days.

[The role of humoral markers of inflammation activity in the evaluation of adequacy of antibacterial chemotherapy for community-acquired pneumonia].

To determine the significance of results of dynamic study of C-reactive protein (C-RP) and ceruloplasmin (CP) concentrations in plasma for evaluation of adequacy of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) launching antibacterial chemotherapy we investigated 97 patients (servicemen on draft). C-RP and CP were determined by immunoturbidimetric method. The blood samples were obtained on admission, on the 3rd-4th day of treatment and on the 7th-8th day of stay in the hospital.