Results of using Spine Assist Mazor in surgical treatment of spine disorders.

In this paper, we describe the possibility of using a bone-mounted miniature robot based on the experience of different surgeries performed in 77 patients divided into four groups according to the general pathology (degenerative stenosis of the vertebral canal, fractures of vertebral bodies, spondylolisthesis, hemangiomas, and tumors). All the patients underwent surgical intervention using Spine Assist Mazor, such as stabilization using the Go-Lif system, transpedicular systems, vertebroplasty, and vertebral body biopsy. The new method and the technology of stabilizing surgeries using Spine Assist Mazor allow one to perform preoperative virtual planning based on CT images and to identify an ideal and safe trajectory of placing screws or needles for vertebroplasty or biopsy.

[The effect of osteochin on the dynamics of the course of the myodystrophic process].

Osteochin (Quinoin, Hungary) efficacy was studied in the treatment of 20 patients with Duchenne's progressive myodystrophy. The drug was administered in a dose of 200 mg a day for a month. A favorable effect of such therapy was observed in all the patients.

[Hygienic evaluation of substrata of contamination of ventilation and air conditioning systems].

Modern ventilation and air conditioning systems are complex technological objects in environment which can be sources of health-hazardous factors, including biological ones. Ventilation and air conditioning contact systems with water and partial air recirculation have construction prerequisites for environmental accumulation and dispersal of organic substances of microorganism and anthropogenic origin. Pollution substrates of inner surfaces of the above systems contain specific antigens causing immune response in persons working in air-conditioned premises.