[Effect of synoptic-meteorologic factors on the course of bronchial asthma in adolescents]. / Vliianie sinoptiko-meteorologicheskikh faktorov na techenie bronkhial'noi astmy u podrostkov.

Asthmatic attacks observed in 1131 adolescents on sanatorium treatment are related to passing of atmospheric fronts. The attacks predominated in those patients who had come to the spa in condition of uncured bronchial asthma aggravation. As the episodes of asphyxia prevent the asthmatic adolescents from benefits of spa factors it is necessary to perform more differentiated selection to sanatorium treatment.

[Effect of the climate of the Anapa health resort on the effectiveness of treatment of chronic aspecific lung diseases in adolescents]. / Vliianie klimata kurorta Anapa na éffektivnost' lecheniia nespetsificheskikh zabolevanii legkikh u podrostkov.

The results of examination of 2144 adolescents with bronchial asthma and chronic bronchitis coming to the health resort area of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus from various regions of the USSR showed a significant effect of the climatic and weather factors on the efficacy of sanatorium treatment. Change of climatic zones resulted in the reduction of therapeutic efficacy due to dysadaptation reactions of the body necessitating stricter indications for a differentiated selection of adolescents coming from contrast climatic zones of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East.

[Use of the sauna in the complex health resort treatment of patients with nonspecific bronchopulmonary diseases]. / Primenenie sauny v komplekse kurortnogo lecheniia u bol'nykh s nespetsificheskimi bronkholegochnymi zabolevaniiami.

The use of therapeutic hyperthermia in sauna as part of multimodality therapy of 107 patients with asthma and chronic bronchitis resulted in a rapid time course of clinical symptoms of diseases, reduced the adaptation period at a health resort, produced a bronchodilatatory effect and helped to return cardiodynamics to normal permitting one to make use of sauna as a pathogenetic therapeutic method for patients with the obstructive syndrome in bronchopulmonary diseases.