[A.P. Frumkin: a prominent founder of soviet urology. On the 120th anniversary].

This article pays tribute to Anatoly Pavlovich Frumkin on the 120th anniversary of his birthday. It describes his life, the creative scientific path of a prominent researcher, military urological surgeon, founder of a urological school and the first in the Soviet Union Head of the Department of Urology at the S.P.

[Changes in rheological blood properties in patients with lupus nephritis and IgA-nephropathy].

Aim: To compare changes of hemorheological parameters in patients with lupus nephritis (LN) and IgA-nephropathy (IgA-N).

Material And Methods: Kinetics of spontaneous aggregation, disaggregation of red cells in shearing flow, red cell deformability were studied in 73 patients with LN including 6 patients with active LN with nephrotic syndrome, 38 patients with active LN with urinary syndrome, 29 with inactive LN; in 24 patients with a hematuric form of IgA-nephritis (IgA-N); in 24 healthy volunteers (controls).

Results: Patients with LN and a hematuric form of IgA-H were found to have disorders of microrheological blood characteristics (accelerated formation of erythrocytic aggregates -EA of high density) depending on the form and activity of the disease.