[Significance of cytological methods in diagnostics and protection of health].

The authors shows cytological diagnostics used in clinical practice as effective method to carry out life-time diagnostics of different pathological processes. The Method is effective during all stages of medical observation of a patient in policlinics, inpatient department and in operating room, but on the state level a cytopathologist does not have the status associated with physician level and base training of such specialist is not provided what is critically necessary for timely morphological diagnostics of diseases having morphological substratum to their detecting.

[Different therapeutic approaches for chronic diffuse liver lesions using ornicetil, lactulose, etimizol and corinfar].

Different therapeutic regimens were tried in 67 patients with hepatic cirrhosis and in 54 patients with chronic hepatitis depending on the leading pathological syndrome. Treatment schemes involved the use of the drug ornicetil in patients having acute episodes of portal systemic encephalopacy, lactulose in those presenting with an increased content of ammonia in the blood and symptoms of chronic portal systemic encephalopacy; etimizol was given to those patients with an apperant antioxidant imbalance. Differentiated approaches to the institution of curative measures permitted improving considerably the patients' medical rehabilitation, achieving regression of pathological manifestations.

[Impact of menopause and disease on osteocalcin markers in female patients with rheumatoid arthritis].

The impact of menopause and activity of rheumatoid inflammation on the osseous tissue metabolism was studied with the aid of biochemical markers of remodelling of the osseous tissue. Osteocalcin (noncollagenous protein of bone tissue) is believed to be the most informative marker of formation of the osseous tissue. In 70 female patients presenting with rheumatoid arthritis, blood serum concentration of osteocalcin was measured.