[The treatment of preasthma patients by inhalations of calcitrin].

Calcitrin inhalations were used in the treatment of 42 patients with preasthma (chronic obstructive bronchitis--37, asthmatic bronchitis--15). The antiinflammatory and chronic obstructive bronchitis. The broncholytic effect prevailed in patients with asthmatic bronchitis.

[Various indicators of early diagnosis of the protracted course of acute pneumonia].

Humoral immunity, body reactivity, reparative function of connective tissue were investigated in 45 patients with poor-symptom acute pneumonia and in 29 lingering pneumonia cases. The patients were examined for the content of IgM, IgG and IgA, haptoglobin, seromucoid, collagen metabolism (by oxyproline) on treatment days 1-5 and 15-25. With prolongation of the inflammation resolution and transformation of the disease into a lingering form, there appeared an imbalance of immunoglobulins manifested by low values of IgG and IgA.