[Status of the upper parts of the digestive tract and Helicobacter pylori infections in patients with chronic kidney failure after kidney transplantation].

The purpose of the study was to examine the state of upper parts of the digestive tract, prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection and its relation to the pathology revealed in patients with chronic renal insufficiency after kidney transplantation.

[Methodological problems and various results of the study of the incidence and structure of diseases of the urinary system among adult population (data from outpatient clinics of Moscow, Celinograd and the Celinograd district of the Kazakh SSR)].

A 4-stage system of mass screening of population for the detection of renal diseases tested in one of the outpatient clinic zones in Moscow (2013 residents), Thelinograd (7091 residents), and Tselinograd Region, Kazakh SSR (880 residents) was presented. The incidence rates of renal diseases per 1000 examined population in Moscow, Tselinograd and Thelinograd Region, Kazakh SSR, were 12.4 +/- 2.

[Paraneoplastic kidney lesions].

The authors summed up the results of a study of paraneoplastic nephropathy combined with a tumor process of different sites in 41 patients treated over a 14-year period. Data on the frequency of the combination of a tumor with nephropathy, the time of tumor diagnosis from the appearance of the signs of renal involvement, the frequency of various morphological changes in the kidneys (amyloidosis, nephropathy of glomerulonephritis type) were correlated with the literature data. The importance of the knowledge of clinical features, a course of nephropathy for early recognition of tumors and correct therapeutic tactics was discussed.