[Expert's opinion on recommendations for water and other beverages consumption in elderly?].

The article encloses definition of water role and its body requirement, review of water balance and management in older persons regarding characteristic of this age group and concomitant disorders. Based on current literature and expert's opinion the recommendations for water consumption were expressed with estimation of insufficient apply and oversupply, evaluation of hydration state, domestic water sources in diet with accent on influence of proper hydration on comfort and good health.

Synoviorthesis with 198Au colloid gold in haemophilia patients. A preliminary report.

In 1988-1989 fifteen patients with severe haemophilia A and recurrent bleedings into the knee joint, aged from 19 to 44 years were treated by an intraarticular injection of 198Au colloid gold. So far 10 of them were assessed after 6 months follow-up. In 6 cases cesseation and in 2 cases reduction in number and volume of bleedings were observed.

[Functional capacity of pancreatic B cells in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 with late true ineffectiveness of sulfonylurea derivatives].

Fasting concentration of the C peptide in serum was estimated in 150 patients with type 2 diabetes treated with insulin because of the late, true ineffectiveness of the sulphonylurea derivatives. In 36 patients selected out of the total group at random the secretion of that peptide was measured after i.v.

[Ultrasonographic and scintigraphic studies of "hot" autonomic thyroid nodules].

Scintigraphic and gammagraphic (gamma-camera) techniques have been applied in diagnosing "hot" non-TSH dependent thyroid nodules. On the basis of frequent uneven accumulation of isotopic tracer observed in scintigraphic studies it was concluded that the structure of these nodules is heterogeneous. In some cases paradoxical patterns have been obtained following the dynamic tests of suppression and stimulation of the thyroid: after the administration of thyroid preparations paranodular thyroid tissue appears, while TSH administration causes an increase in the iodine uptake by the nodule.