Treatment of immune nephropathies with high doses of immunoglobulins.

Unlabelled: The present study presents the results from the application of high doses of gamma-globulin in the treatment of immune (idiopathic and satellite) glomerulopathies.

Materials And Methods: Twenty patients were treated. Of these 12 were with primary chronic glomerulonephritis, 7--with lupus nephritis and 1--with renal amyloidosis.

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) levels in predialysis patients with chronic renal failure.

We studied the changes in the urinary cAMP level in fifty-five predialysis patients (30 men and 25 women) with chronic renal failure (CRF). The excretion of cAMP in 20 patients with first-degree CRF (serum creatinine levels below 356.6 mmol/I) and 15 patients with second or third degree CRF (serum creatinine below 800 mmol/I) was compared with that of 20 age-matched controls using the original I-125 RIA (radioimmunoassay) kit of Incstar Corporation, USA.

[The characteristics of the spontaneous realization of sexual intercourse in economically employed women].

The basic parameters, connected with spontaneous realization of sexual intercourse in 411 women workers and employees, chosen at random, are studied. Various regularities are established: the lubrication is connected with difficulties in women with inflammatory changes in the internal sexual organs. The feeling of sexual excitation during sexual intercourse is stronger in women with larger number of sexual partners since the beginning of their sexual life.