[Results of enzyme-linked immunoassay of the blood serum in patients with infectious and inflammatory diseases of the anterior segment of the eye].

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical significance of the data obtained during enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) of the blood serum of patients with inflammatory diseases of the anterior eye segment compared to a group of healthy volunteers.

Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis of the results of serum ELISA of 200 patients with chronic keratoconjunctivitis and keratouveitis was performed using the solid-phase IFA method in order to detect the presence of antibodies to herpes simplex viruses of 1 and 2 types (HSV 1, 2), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and . The control group consisted of 34 healthy volunteers with no signs of inflammation of the eye tissue.

[Ecology and the female reproductive system].

Observation of female health in a region having higher background radiation suggests that Chernobyl plant accident has not induced symptomatic radiation disorders, but actually altered immune system. Chances are that long-term consequences of exposure to radiation will induce higher incidence of immune-related diseases. Females residents of Moscow suburb demonstrated more favorable results of immunologic study, than those of regions exposed to radiation.

[The characteristics of kidney function in pregnant women based on the data from an in-depth biochemical study of the urine].

Serial biochemical urinary tests have been done in 141 pregnant women (46 were healthy, 58 apparently healthy and 37 had late toxemia) and in normal nonpregnant women. Urine was tested for lipids, phospholipids, ethanolamine acylic compounds and certain qualitative characteristics which depict functional abnormality of the renal interstitial tissues in pregnancy. Late toxemia was found to be associated with marked evidence of dysmetabolic nephropathy which may be identified at an early phase using 10% calcium chloride precipitation of lipids, a highly revealing specific test for calciphylaxis.