[Features of sleependoscopy in children].

Objective: To describe the technique and determine the indications for sleep endoscopy in children.

Material And Methods: This study included 35 children, the average age of 5 years 1 month ± 3 years 4 months (from 1 year 6 months to 14 years 5 months). All children underwent standard polysomnography and sleep endoscopy.

[General anesthesia influence on cochlear implant intraoperative testing].

In this article, we consider the influence of combined general anesthesia on the results of electrically-involved stapedial reflex threshold (esrt) registration. We pay a special attention to the anesthesia to exclude its influence on the esrt. This study included 52 patients with bilateral chronic neurosensory hearing impairment.

[Prospects of endoscopic otosurgery in children].

Active progress in otosurgery opens up new opportunities for minimally invasive surgeries and significantly improves the results of treatment, but a number of problems remain unsolved, including in children. Despite the general positive trend of using the endoscope in otosurgery, in pediatric practice the data are insufficient and extremely contradictory. Literary sources show that, with certain advantages, the existing techniques of endoscopic tympanoplasty are far from perfect and inferior in effectiveness to classical microscopic techniques, which also necessitates further research in this field.

Anticoagulant Effects of Heparin Complexes with Prolyl-Glycine Peptide and Glycine and Proline Amino Acids.

The study demonstrates the formation of heparin complexes with prolyl-glycine peptide and proline and glycine amino acids. The method was developed for in vitro production of these complexes at 1:1 dipeptide to heparin molar ratio and 2:1 amino acid to heparin molar ratio. These complexes, unlike the constituents, proline and glycine, exhibited significant anticoagulant, antiplatelet, and fibrin-depolymerization activities of varying degree in vitro and in vivo.

[Frequency of opportunistic infections in children with immune neutropenia and their mothers].

Aim: Determine the frequency of opportunistic infections among children with immune neutropenia and their mothers.

Materials And Methods: 66 mothers and 66 children with immune neutropenia diagnosis were examined for the presence of herpes (HV) and pneumocystic infection. Opportunistic infections markers (IgM, IgG, early and late antigens, virus reproduction) were determined by enzyme immunoassay, immunofluorescence reaction and rapid culture method (vero, u937, human fibroblasts).