[Ultraviolet irradiation of blood in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].

The described methods for ultraviolet blood radiation were used in 80 patients: 51 had tuberculosis of the bronchopulmonary system and 29 nonspecific pulmonary diseases. A marked clinical effect was confirmed by subjective and objective methods. In all cases blood pressure moderately decreased, there was a tendency to hypercoagulation decline, the erythrocyte count and hemoglobin level increased.

[Pulmonary sequestration].

Pulmonary sequestration was observed in 7 patients at the age of from 14 to 46 years. Diagnosis can be suspected in frequently repeated pneumonia without pronounced purulent intoxication and cough with expectoration, which are supposed in patients according to the findings of roentgenologic study. Aberrant vessels deviated from intercostal arteries of the thoracic and abdominal aorta.