[FORMATION OF THE NOTION OF «QUALITY OF LIFE», CONCEPTUALISATION AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS (LITERATURE REVIEW)].

Quality of life (QoL) is an important health outcome and represents the primary aim of all medical interventions. The term QoL has been is frequently used in medical and philosophical literature in recent decades and has become an important concept and goal of public health research. Traditionally, biomedical results rather than QoL were the basic endpoints in clinical and public health research.

[Expected epidemic risk from the minimum drinking water content of protozoan agents of enteric parasitic diseases].

The paper presents information on lambliasis and cryptosporidiosis outbreaks associated with drinking water contamination-associated. It discusses a risk for the emergence of mass outbreaks of lambliasis and cryptosporidiosis among the population of the municipalities of administrative district centers and other human settlements, which are to exercise sanitary and parasitological control over the quality of water of its centralized drinking supply. The significance of this water contamination by lamblia cysts and cryptosporidium oocysts is considered.

[Etiology and structure of infectious complications of cytostatic therapy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non-B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas].

A retrospective analysis of medical histories with acute lymphoblast leucosis and non-B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas made it possible to reveal infectious complications of cytostatic therapy in 100% of children, namely: sepsis (0.3%), unidentified infection (12%), local infection (87.7%).

[Immunoenzyme analysis and polymerase chain reaction in the diagnosis of an intrauterine infection in newborn infants with cerebral lesions].

The comparative evaluation of the diagnostic value of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and the enzyme immunoassay (EIA) in the detection of intrauterine infection (IUI) in 48 newborn infants with cerebral lesions was made. Tests for the presence of the infective agents of IUI, most frequently occurring in the region (Cytomegalovirus, Herpes simplex virus, Chlamydia trachomatis), were carried out. The levels of serum IgA, IgG and IgM were evaluated in the course of the primary screening of IUI.

[The laboratory diagnosis of cytomegalovirus infection in infants in the first months of life].

The detection rate of IgM, specific to cytomegalovirus (CMV), in the umbilical blood was 2.0 +/- 1.8% in infants with antenatal complications in their medical history, 8.

[Intestinal microbiocensosis and immune status in young children with severe forms of acute pneumonia after the use of different therapy regimens].

As revealed in this study, the inclusion of bifidumbacterin and carbolen into the complex therapy of severe forms of acute pneumonia in young children leads to the most complete correction of shifts with respect to immune status and intestinal microbiocenosis, thus reducing the duration of the disease.

[Cancer development in the cicatricially altered esophagus].

The development of cancer in the cicatricially changed esophagus was observed by the authors in 6 patients. Only one patient proved to be operable. The authors make an objection to prophylactic exclusion of the jugular portion of the esophagus or its transection in the region concerned.

[Conservative treatment of cicatricial stenosis of the esophagus].

One hundred and eight five patients with an esophageal burn were treated clinically, 53 of them showed already developed strictures. In 31 cases the narrowing could be passed by a bougie 12-14. In 28 of them the esophagus was dilated by means of a routine dilation; in 3 there was perforation of the esophagus necessitating jugular mediastinotomy in the first, transdiaphragmatic mediastinotomy in the second, and resection of the thoracic esophagus in the third, the results being favourable in all of them.