[Plasma lipid spectrum in acute leukemia].

The examination of 54 patients with acute leukemia (AL) found out ambiguous changes in plasmic lipid spectrum typical for elderly patients. Hypocholesterolemia occurred more frequently in nonlymphoblastic AL, is accompanied with severe anemia and infectious-septic complications. Hyperlipidemia was more common among senile AL patients with coronary heart disease which contributed to circulatory failure, cardiac arrhythmia, pneumonia complications and eventually to shorter survival of AL patients.

[Ultrasonographic characteristics of the liver in chronic and acute leukemia].

Parenchyma of the liver and blood flow in the portal system were studied in patients with acute and chronic leukemias. Ultrasonic investigations of the liver with the use of Doppler's method were conducted in 82 leukemia patients. It has been found that in most cases of leukemia not only the size but also ultrasonic characteristics of parenchyma of the liver are changed.

[Characteristics of the clinical course of acute drug-induced agranulocytosis (data of the Hematological Department for the 6-year period--1982-1987)].

The clinical characteristics of agranulocytosis in its varying forms have been presented that determine the therapeutic tactics at different stages of the disease. It has been stressed that the prevention and treatment of infectious complications, control of intoxication should be considered as the most important measures. Glucocorticoid hormones present only a symptom complex of the antishock therapy.

[Thyroid status of the body in leukemias].

Disordered thyroid status was detected in patients with various clinical and morphological forms of leukemia and with hypoplastic anemia. These disorders present as low triiodothyronine blood concentration and a deficit of this hormone in the body. A certain correlation has been detected between the degree of the thyroid status disorders and the leukemic process malignancy.