[Ways of increasing the effectiveness of chemotherapy of urinary tract infection].

Efficacy of blood UV irradiation (BUVI) followed by its reinfusion to the patient in combination with antibacterial therapy was studied in patients with acute and chronic pyelonephritis and its purulent septic complications. The BUVI was used when the antibacterial drugs failed to be sufficiently efficient and the clinical process of the infection was severe. The kinetics of ferritin, transferrin, alpha 2-macroglobulin, beta 2-microglobulin and haptoglobulin in the blood serum was investigated as a criterion of treatment efficacy.

[Immunochemical tests in the diagnosis of diseases of the male reproductive system].

Immunochemical tests were employed to measure proteins (acid phosphatase, prostatic beta-globulin, endometrial alpha-2-globulin, lactoferrin, carcinoembryonal antigen) in spermatic plasma and prostatic fluid from healthy subjects and patients with prostatic adenoma, cancer, chronic inflammation, defects of spermatogenesis. It was found that the overall concentration of acid phosphatase and prostatic beta-globulin may serve a diagnostic criteria to differentiate prostatic adenoma from cancer as in 93% of prostatic cancer this parameter did not exceed 400 micrograms/ml whereas in 75% of adenomas it was above 1200 micrograms/ml. Activity of chronic prostatitis can be assessed from lactoferrin test.