[Disturbances of primary hemostasis in patients with dilation cardiomyopathy].

We studied morphological characteristics of platelets and parameters of platelet aggregation in patients with dilation cardiomyopathy. Augmented aggregatory activity of platelets was found in 76% of patients. In blood of majority of patients we found circulating leukocyte-platelet aggregates.

[Health status evaluation in children].

A dependence of a health status on a condition of adaptation and of functional reserves of child's organism was studied. It was shown that the health status of contemporary schoolchildren is characterized, alongside with a higher prevalence of poly-organs' and morphological-and-functional deviations and chronic pathologies, by impaired rates and a lack of harmonic physical development as well as by a low level of reserve organism abilities. A variety of measures is suggested to promote the existing system of physical education.

[Circulating tissue antigens in multiple sclerosis and hepatocerebral dystrophy].

Using complement fixation test (CFT) in cold, the authors measured the circulating tissue antigens of the brain and liver in 50 subjects (22 patients with hepatocerebral dystrophy, 18 with multiple sclerosis and 10 healthy subjects). The total circulating levels of liver and brain antigens were found to be dependent on the activity and progression of the pathological process in these organs. The CFT may be recommended as an additional test for diagnosing the destructive process in the brain and liver of patients with hepatocerebral dystrophy and multiple sclerosis and for assessing the efficacy of the conducted treatment.