[Effects of antimicrobial peptide from lactoferrin in blood serum and urine in patients with renal colica with urolithiasis and pyelonephritis].

Aim: To evaluate the role of lactoferrin and lactoferricin in blood serum and urine in patients with an attack of renal colic against the background of urolithiasis and pyelonephritis.

Materials And Methods: We examined 149 patients admitted to the urological department of the City Clinical Hospital No. 3 of Astrakhan, according to emergency indications, with an attack of renal colic.

[Endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent vasodilation in patients with chronic prostatitis].

Using laser Doppler flowmetry, basal blood flow in patients with chronic prostatitis was evaluated. 90 men with chronic prostatitis and 30 healthy men of reproductive age underwent examination. For the assessment of endothelial vasomotor function, ionophoretic tests with 5% acetylcholine and 5% sodium nitroprusside were performed.

[Using safocid for antibiotic prophylaxis in minimally-invasive endoscopic operations and manipulations].

Efficacy of safocid (1 g of seknidasol, 1 g of azitromycin, 150 mg of fluconasol) was studied in antibiotic prophylaxis before conduction of urological endoscopic operations: diagnostic cystoscopy, renal stenting, ureteroscopy with contact lithotripsy. A total of 128 patients of the urological department received a single safocid dose 90 min before surgical intervention. Safocid efficacy in prevention of infectious complications reached 96.

[Tamsulosin administration for prophylaxis and treatment of stent-related symptoms].

The study of efficacy and safety of tamsulosin in therapy of stent-related symptoms has demonstrated that tamsulosin relieves stent-related irritative symptoms and improves quality of life. Further prospective trials are needed to finally assess tamsulosin efficacy.

[Complex environmental and virological monitoring in the Primorye Territory in 2003-2006].

The paper presents the results of monitoring of viruses of Western Nile (WN), Japanese encephalitis (JE), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Geta, Influenza A, as well as avian paramicroviruses type I (virus of Newcastle disease (ND)) and type 6 (APMV-6) in the Primorye Territory in 2003-2006. Totally throughout the period, specific antibodies to the viruses were detected by neutralization test in wild birds (7.3%, WN; 8.