[The treatment of preasthma patients by inhalations of calcitrin].

Calcitrin inhalations were used in the treatment of 42 patients with preasthma (chronic obstructive bronchitis--37, asthmatic bronchitis--15). The antiinflammatory and chronic obstructive bronchitis. The broncholytic effect prevailed in patients with asthmatic bronchitis.

[Various indicators of early diagnosis of the protracted course of acute pneumonia].

Humoral immunity, body reactivity, reparative function of connective tissue were investigated in 45 patients with poor-symptom acute pneumonia and in 29 lingering pneumonia cases. The patients were examined for the content of IgM, IgG and IgA, haptoglobin, seromucoid, collagen metabolism (by oxyproline) on treatment days 1-5 and 15-25. With prolongation of the inflammation resolution and transformation of the disease into a lingering form, there appeared an imbalance of immunoglobulins manifested by low values of IgG and IgA.

[Effect of calcitrin inhalation on the course of cortico-dependent bronchial asthma].

Thirty-five patients with cortico-dependent bronchial asthma were treated with calcitrin inhalations during disease exacerbation. Calcitrin was administered daily for 10-12 days in the doses increased from 1 to 3-4 Units followed by reduction to the initial dose in the presence of routine therapy. According to the clinico-laboratory, spirographic and tachographic studies, the symptoms of asthma exacerbation rapidly degressed, while asphyxia attacks ceased or were relieved.