Thyroid hormones levels in infants during and after cardiopulmonary bypass with ultrafiltration.

Objective: The aim of this study was to find out if infants after cardiopulmonary bypass develop non-thyroidal illness and if illness severity after cardiopulmonary bypass depends on hormone concentration in ultrafiltrate.

Methods: Thyroid hormone status was assessed in 20 infants with congenital heart defects undergoing cardiac surgery (age range 7 days-11 months). Blood samples were collected preoperatively, during cardiopulmonary bypass, after cardiopulmonary bypass, and also postoperatively in 1, 2, 3, and 8 day after cardiac surgery.

Detection of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women with CIN and invasive carcinoma. Controversial results of different methods.

Chlamydia (Ch.) trachomatis infection as a sexually transmitted disease is highly important, but reliable methods of diagnosing it remain to be worked out. We used three methods of detection: an immunoenzymatic technique for detection of Ch.

Relation between infection with human papilloma viruses and expression of p21 and p53 oncoproteins in patients with cancer of the uterine cervix.

Infection with HPV type 16 was demonstrated in 54% of the cases and infection with HPV type 18 in 36.5% of the cases of uterine cervix carcinoma. Both types of viruses were present in 24.

Inhibition of the vitamin B12 binding capacity of proteins by the hydrolysis product of cyclophosphamide.

The inhibitory effect of cyclophosphamide hydrolysis product (CPHP) on vitamin B12 binding ability to proteins has been established. The ester N-(2-chloroethyl)-N'-(3-phosphopropyl)-ethylenediamine hydrochloride is probably responsible, in vitro, for blocking the protein binding sites. Preincubation of proteins with vitamin B12 prevents the inhibitory effect of CPHP.

Toxoplasmosis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Comparative serological studies.

There are still controversial views as to the relation between SLE and toxoplasmosis. Therefore, we looked for serological markers in both diseases. In patients with SLE (17), toxoplasmosis (28), and in normal controls (28) anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies, anti-nuclear antibodies of different specificities, anti-histone and anti-cardiolipine antibodies, as well as antibodies against most common public idiotypes were measured.

Microheterogeneity of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein in the detection of intercurrent infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

We evaluated the clinical usefulness of determinations of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) microheterogeneity in distinguishing patients who have active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from those who have RA and an intercurrent infection. AGP microheterogeneity was studied by affinity electrophoresis with concanavalin A as the ligand, and the results were expressed as reactivity coefficients (RC). Significant differences were found between the mean RC (+/- SD) in healthy individuals (1.