[Comparative efficiency of conventional myelosuppressive chemotherapy and therapy including interferon alpha in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia].

We compared efficacy of conventional myelosuppressive chemotherapy with myelosan, hydrealitalir and interferon-alpha (Ifn-a) therapy in 52 patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). The latter treatment (Ifn-a was given in different doses) was conducted in 23 patients. Significant differences (p = 0.

[The study of parathyroid hormone in the serum of patient with hypopharyngeal cancer].

Measurements of parathyroid hormone concentrations were made in the serum of patients with vestibular larynx before treatment, after radiation treatment and after radiation treatment followed by surgery. Patients with laryngeal cancer were found to have impaired calcium metabolism, their serum parathyroid hormone concentrations were elevated. After radiotherapy, in a favorable clinical course, patients with cancer of the vestibular larynx stage II show normalization of the hormone levels, whereas the above combined treatment diminished the concentrations, but they still remain above normal.

[Clinical aspects, diagnosis and treatment of various forms of viral encephalitis in children].

The authors provide the clinical and laboratory data on the etiological structure of acute viral encephalitides in children. Special attention is devoted to the description of the clinical picture of the gravest form of encephalitis caused by type I herpes simplex virus. Present the laboratory data on the long-term preservation of type I herpes simplex virus in the CNS, which correlates to the clinical and morphological findings of the subacute or recurrent course of the disease.