[Use of radon-containing rectal suppositories in chronic prostatitis complicated by sexual dysfunctions]. / Primenenie radonosoderzhashchikh rektal'nykh svechei pri khronicheskom prostatite, oslozhnennom polovymi disfunktsiiami.

The article describes how to apply radon-containing rectal suppositories in patients with chronic prostatitis (CP). Intrarectal insertion of the suppositories is performed in the patients lying in the left lateral or knee-elbow position daily for the first 8 days in a dose 18.5 kBk, for the following 2-4 days in a daily dose 37 kBk 2-3 times a day. So, the course of the treatment takes 10-12 days. Such treatment of CP patients eradicated or alleviated prostatic inflammation and improved sexual function, was effective in 80% patients, prolonged remission to 12-16 months.

[An epidemiological assessment of the chronic carriage of the hepatitis B virus surface antigen and other markers of this infection]. / Epidemiologicheskaia otsenka khronicheskogo nositel'stva poverkhnostnogo antigena virusa gepatita B i drugikh markerov étoi infektsii.

On the basis of prolonged (up to 10 years) observations of chronic HBsAg carriers (87 persons) slowly progressing chronic hepatitis B virus infection was detected in most of them (57.5%). In these persons up to 6 negative results of the analysis for the presence of HBsAg were periodically obtained, with the subsequent renewal of HBs-antigenemia. More profound examination of 192 persons with chronic lesions of the liver and other digestive organs helped diagnose chronic persistent hepatitis and chronic active hepatitis, accompanied by HBs-antigenemia and the circulation of other markers of this infection, in 63.5% of the examinees.

[Methodological bases for the study and the patterns of the seasonality of viral hepatitis A]. / Metodicheskie osnovy izucheniia i zakonomernosti sezonnosti virusnogo gepatita A.

On the basis of the study of the data on the incidence of viral hepatitis A in one of the districts of a big city for 20 years the authors come to the conclusion on the advisability of a comparative study of the monthly changes in the incidence of hepatitis A within individual uniform morbidity cycles covering the periods of many years and the use of average monthly data for many years for plotting the typical curve, as well as the use of the simplified for the calculation of the upper limit of annual morbidity. Similarities and differences in the monthly dynamics of morbidity in the years of high and low morbidity levels have been revealed, and the age group of the population (20-39 years) which ensures the continuity of the epidemic process all the year round has been determined. The factors contributing to the seasonal activation of the epidemic process start operating in June among schoolchildren aged 11-14 years, and later their operation spreads to other groups of the population.