Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Cytokine mRNA Profiles in Acute Respiratory Infection Patients.

Introduction: Respiratory infections, collectively, are one of the World's most common and serious illness groups. As recent observations have shown, the most severe courses of acute respiratory infection, often leading to death, are due to uncontrolled cytokine production (hypercytokinemia).

Methods: The study involved 364 patients with respiratory illness being treated in clinics in St.

[Molecular biology investigation of respiratory viruses as a factor of infectious complications in hemoblastosis and myelodepression].

Communicable respiratory viruses as a causative factor of infectious complication in hemoblastosis and myelodepression were investigated in 51 patients (aplastic anemia--3, multiple myeloma--10, different patterns of acute leukemia--16, chronic leukemia--8 and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma--14). Our clinical evidence obtained with the aid of polymerase chain reaction featured genomes of adenoviruses, influenza A and B viruses, respiratory-scintillating virus and coronaviruses. On the whole, respiratory viral infections were detected in 27 (52.

[Cefepime/amikacin in the empirical antibacterial therapy for patients with hemoblastosis of different forms].

The results of the use of cefepime (Maxipime) combination with amikacin vs ceftriaxon combination with amikacin in the treatment of 80 patients with different forms of hemoblastosis are presented. Severe infectious complications in the patients were associated with prolonged and deep neutropenia during inductive or antirelapsing chemotherapy. All the patients in the trial were from the group of high risk of infectious complications with the blood neutrophil count under 100 cells/microliter.

[Cytomegalovirus infection in bone marrow transplantation].

Aim: To evaluate frequency and clinical features of CMV infection in patients with hematological malignancies (HM) after autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation, protective and therapeutic methods, efficiency of CMV hyperimmune immunoglobulin cytotest (Biotest Pharma).

Material And Methods: The trial enrolled 22 patients (group 1) with HM and severe aplastic anemia after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, 58 patients (group 2) with HM after autologous stem cell transplantation. The patients were examined for CMV infection by serologic methods and PCR.