[The effect in vitro of permanent and variable magnetic fields on immunocompetent blood cells from patients with hemoblastoses and non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma].

Immunologic parameters were studied in 54 patients with myeloma multiplex (MM), acute leukosis (AL), non-Hodgkin's disease (NHD) before and after in vitro exposure of these patients' blood to weak constant magnetic field (CMF) and CMF in combination with variable magnetic field (VMF). Blood irradiation with CMF over 60 min in AL and MM patients brought about in some cases enhancement of the expression of +CD3, +CD4 and CD8 together with augmentation of the immunoregulatory index. At the same time phagocytic activity of leucocytes got increased as did digesting capability and index of completeness of phagocytosis, i.

[Effects of erythrocytopheresis on the state of the left heart in patients with polycythemia vera: echocardiographic findings].

Functional response of the left ventricle (LV) and left atrium to erythrocytapheresis (EA) was studied in 20 patients. At admission, the patients had enlarged LV and low myocardial contractility. By cardiac and stroke volume indices two types of central hemodynamics were identified (hyperkinetic and hypokinetic) dependent on PV duration and concomitant cardiac pathology.