[Cases of atypical pulmonary diseases under influence of industrial aerosols].

The article includes discharge epicrises of patients working in contact with quartz-containing dust, welding aerosol, cotton dust, irritant gases emitted in wood burning. Description covers cases of lung fibrosis, idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, systemic vasculitis with lungs involvement, sarcoidosis. The authors suggest that further accumulation of materials, further investigations of lung tissue state, epidemiologic studies will help to widen the list of occupational pulmonary diseases.

[Endolaryngeal laser-assisted microsurgery of benign pharyngeal neoplasms: objective evaluation of functional outcome].

A new technique for endolaryngeal microsurgery is proposed. It based on the irradiation of benign laryngeal tumours using Ho:YAG and potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP) lasers. A total of 198 patients of either sex aged from 2 to 77 years with a variety of benign laryngeal neoplasms were treated by this method between 2004 and 2007.

[Ventilatory and gas exchange functions of the lungs in occupational and other pulmonary diseases].

Aim: To study lung ventilation and gas exchange in interstitional and obstructive diseases of dust-induced and non-occupational origin for correction of pulmonary diseases.

Material And Methods: Diffuse lung capacity (Erich Jaeger unit) and biomechanical properties of the ventilation system (total plethysmography on the bodyplethysmograph made by Erich Jaeger) were investigated in 132 patients including 87 with occupational dust-induced pulmonary diseases (pneumoconiosis, dust bronchitis, exogenic allergic alveolitis, bronchial asthma) and 45 patients with non-occupational diseases: sarcoidosis (n = 28), exogenic allergic alveolitis (n = 10) and bronchial asthma (n = 7).

Results: The changes were of the same type but different severity.

[Therapeutic exercise in combined treatment of patients with laryngo- and tracheostenosis].

It is shown that staged individual special respiratory exercises targeted at nervous-muscular apparatus of the pharynx and trachea improve external respiration function, activate blood flow and venous-lymphatic outflow in the neck area with stimulation of reparative processes in combined postoperative treatment of patients with cicatricial stenoses of the pharynx and trachea.

[Markers of asbestos exposure in workers].

Examination covered 213 workers of asbestos technical ware plant. Standard X-ray examination no pulmonary and pleural changes were revealed. External respiration studies demonstrated moderate ventilation disorders in half of the examinees: in hardware workshop workers--restrictive type disorders, in autofriction components workshop workers--obstructive type ones with hyperventilation.