[Clinical course and diagnosis of female genital tuberculosis]. / Klinika i diagnostika tuberkulëza zhenskikh polovykh organov.

The incidence of genital tuberculosis has increased for the last decade 2-fold reaching 11.9% of all the extrapulmonary cases. Three clinical forms of tuberculosis of the uterine appendages are distinguished: latent or minor inflammation, marked inflammation with tubuloovarian lesions, tuberculomas. The diagnosis of the disease, especially of latent forms, is not easy and requires studying the disease history, the results of subcutaneous 50 TU tuberculin test, histerosalpingography, endoscopic (surgical laparoscopy, histeroscopy, colposcopy), histological and microbiological findings.

[Occurrence of microorganisms in chronic salpingitis in infertile women]. / Chastota vydeleniuia mikroorganizmov pri khronicheskikh sa'lpin- gitakh u zhenshchin, stradaiushchikh besplodiem.

The authors presented the results of microbiological study of internal genitalia of 22 females operated on for tubal infertility caused by chronic salpingitis (all of them were subjected to laparoscopic or laparotomic intervention with subsequent salpingoovariolysis and fimbriostomatoplasty). Cervical discharge, endometrial biopsy specimens, tissue and contents of sactosalpinx as well as abdominal exudates were subjected to bacteriological study. Quantitative and qualitative assessment of aerobic and anaerobic microflora composition was made. The findings stated the variety of inflammation activity levels disregarding the degree of anatomical changes in the genitalia. However, microorganisms were detected in the focus of inflammation only in the acute stage of the inflammation in the true pelvis.

[Effect of the intrauterine device on the DNA content in the endometrial cells]. / Vliianie vnutrimatochnykh kontratseptivov na soderzhanie DNK v kletkakh éndometriia.

PIP: IUDs used for 1 year were shown to cause endometrial changes as the organism's response to an alien body providing the contraceptive effect of the IUD. A cytophotometric study of the DNA content in endometrial cells revealed no significant difference in DNA quantity and ploid distribution of the cells during the 12th month of IUD use as compared to baseline values. (author's)^ieng

[Action of medicated intrauterine contraceptives on the endometrium]. / O vozdeistvii medikamentoznykh vnutrimatochnykh kontratseptivov na éndometrii.

PIP: The results of the examinations of 70 healthy women of childbearing age with a 2-phase menstrual cycle are presented. The effect of medicated IUDs on proliferative processes in the endometrium was studied by examining the cytological characteristics of the endometrium and by the impulse cytophotometric levels of DNA in the endometrium cell nuclei. No pronounced changes in the cytological picture of the endometrium in these women were observed in situ. The quantitative determination of DNA revealed an insignificant decrease in the proliferative activity of the endometrium due to the effect of the medicated IUD. (author's modified)^ieng

[Effect of intrauterine contraceptives on the mitotic regimen of the endometrium]. / Vliianie vnutrimatochnykh kontratseptivov na mitoticheskii rezhim éndometriia.

PIP: The endometrial mitotic regimen during the middle stage of proliferation and secretion was studied in 22 women who had used IUDs for 6 months-1 year. A considerable decrease in mitotic activity, a change in the correlation between metaphases and prophases, and a relative increase in the number of pathological mitoses were established. The use of the IUD for 11-12 months does not result in qualitative alteration of the mitotic regimen which is characteristic of the pronounced proliferative processes in the endometrium. (Authors' modified)^ieng

[Increase in the concentration of RNA in the blood erythrocytes of women in the ovulation period]. / Uvelichenie kontsentratsii RNK v éritrotsitakh krovi zhenshchin v period ovuliatsii

It was revealed that there was an increase (by an average of 58%) of the RNA concentration in the blood erythrocytes of women during ovulation. Measurement of the RNA content in erythrocytes can serve as an ovulation test.