Dynamics of balance indicators, activities of daily living, and quality of life of elderly suffering from Parkinson's disease and frailty after proximal humerus fracture following physiotherapeutic functional training.

Balance dysfunction in elderly patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) is a high-risk fall precaution, along with sarcopenia and senile asthenia, which leads to traumas, including fractures of the proximal humerus fractures (PHF). The objective of the study was to determine the effectiveness of a functional training as part of a physical therapy program on balance, upper limb (UL) function, daily living activities, and quality of life in elderly patients with PD and frailty, following proximal humerus fractures. We examined 33 elderly patients with PD and frailty in the recovery period after PHF.

[The humoral mechanisms of the action of ultrasound in inflammatory lung diseases (an experimental study)].

The paper deals with ultrasound effects examined in experiments on 68 male Wistar rats with experimental pneumonia and on animals with pneumonia injected with plasma from rats pre exposed to ultrasound. Ultrasound is shown to inhibit pulmonary inflammation and lipid peroxidation. The role of humoral factors in preventive mechanism of ultrasound action is elucidated.

[The theoretical and practical questions of the physiological prevention of inflammatory lung diseases].

The paper covers the results of experimental and clinical evaluation of preventive potential of some drugs and physical factors against acute and chronic inflammation in the lungs. Standard general and local reactions related to prophylaxis are specified with consideration of underlying mechanisms. Comparative preventive potentialities of the techniques and prospects of their effectiveness prediction are discussed.

[Characteristics of the course of bronchitis in allergy].

The course of bronchitis with clinical manifestations of allergy is characterized by certain cytochemical features which (as compared with bronchitis without allergy) show an increase of deoxyribonucleic acid, increased permeability of the intracellular membranes of polynuclear leucocytes and lymphocytes, reduction of the content of cationic proteins and activity of acid phosphatase in the polynuclear leucocytes of the blood.

[Evaluation of the efficacy of the treatment of patients with chronic bronchitis].

The authors emphasize informative inadequacy of traditional laboratory diagnosis and anti-inflammatory efficacy of treatment of chronic bronchitis. It is proposed to use a new method (Sigma-ESR) reflecting the activity and specificity of tissue processes in the lungs during inflammation that substantiates objectification of diagnosis. The technique is described.

[Improving the informativeness of studying the content of cationic proteins in blood leukocytes in inflammatory diseases of the lungs].

In vitro exposure of the blood to UV irradiation and ultrasound changes the content of cationic proteins in polynuclear leukocytes. The difference (vs. the intact blood) is diagnostically valuable, for it helps locate the inflammation in the lungs, determine the origin of the bronchial spasm, and predict resistance to relapses of pulmonary inflammations.

[Diagnostic potentials of studying the ESR].

Specific (tuberculin, adrenalin) and nonspecific (ultrasound, phenol) in vitro exposures of the blood improve the diagnostic informativeness of the red cell sedimentation rate measurements. Similarity of the results of measurements, carried out by the suggested and the reference techniques in more than 550 patients, gives grounds to employ the suggested modifications of tuberculin diagnosis, of detecting a beta-adrenodependent bronchospasm, of assessing the pattern and the activity of an inflammation in pneumonias. Practical and statistical rationale for the suggested methods is given.