[Drug monitoring of the antibacterial drug Vancomycin in patients with purulent-inflammatory diseases of the maxillofacial region].

The Aim Of The Study: To evaluate the change in the level of concentration of the antibacterial drug Vancomycin registered in the purulent focus area (facial vein) and in the peripheral blood flow (cubital vein) in patients with phlegmon of the maxillofacial region (MFR).

Materials And Methods: The clinical material of the study was 12 patients with phlegmon of MFR who were being treated in the maxillofacial department of the N.I.

[Reflexotherapy in the context of rehabilitative medicine].

The main stages of the history of reflexotheray and its principal methodological aspects are reviewed in the context of the introduction of this approach into rehabilitative medicine. Productive results of such integration find the demonstrative reflection in the defense of 56 theses for the degree of candidate of science and 28 ones for the degree of doctor of science devoted to various aspects of reflexotherapy. The growing tendency toward the more extensive application of non-pharmacological approaches to complementary medicine opens up new prospects for the further development of reflexotherapy in the context of modern health care practices.

[Endoscopic hemostasis in patients with portal hypertension tumor genesis].

Aim Of The Study: to assess the results of using endoscopic techniques to achieve hemostasis for the control of bleeding and the prevention of recurrent bleeding from esophageal and gastric varices in the patients with primary liver cancer and metastatic liver lesions.

Materials And Methods: in the period of 2009-2011,7 patients with primary liver cancer or metastatic liver lesions complicated by gastro-esophageal bleeding were treated in the Sklifosovsky Clinical and Research Institute for Emergency Medicine. The sources of bleeding were esophageal varices in 6 patients, gastric varices in 1.