[Use of an automated classifying system for the dispensary system of the population]. / Ispol'zovanie avtomatizirovannoi klassifitsiruiushchei sistemy dlia dispanserizatsii naseleniia.

While processing blood values by an automatic classifying system, human beings can be divided into healthy (normal) and unhealthy (ill) persons. In so doing, one can evaluate the status of the body's individual systems (gastrointestinal tract, respiratory organs, locomotor apparatus, heart and vessels, urinary, endocrine, hemopoietic, and female genital organs, the central nervous system), which allows a physician to find a source of poor health from the very onset of disease.

[The flowmetric assessment of the adequacy of carotid endarterectomy]. / Floumetricheskaia otsenka adekvatnosti karotidnoi éndarteréktomii.

The authors made an analysis of ultrasonic flowmetry in 36 operations of carotid endarterectomy in 22 patients with stenosis of brachiocephalic arteries. After removal of atherosclerotic plaques the volumetric blood flow in carotid arteries increased from 65-260 ml/min up to 210-400 ml/min. No substantial difference was noted between the increase of blood flow after classical endarterectomy and after the formation of a new carotid bifurcation. Flowmetry allows the estimation of adequacy of vascular reconstruction and the choice of correct management of the patients at the postoperative period.

[The shaping of radiation doses and of dose-effect curves for patients undergoing x-ray studies]. / Formirovanie dozovykh nagruzok i krivykh doza--éffekt dlia patsientov, podvergaiushchikhsia rentgenologicheskim issledovaniiam.

Human peripheral blood values are used to define an effective dose at X-ray study. Processing is made on a technical unit comprising a blood analyzer and a computer supplied by a so-called automatic classifying system. The program is based on the recognition of images with nonstatistical assessment. A dose-effect could be first plotted in the range of effective single radiation doses of 0.8-25 mZv.

[Monitoring the changes of the lesion and of the patient's health condition in the course of radiotherapy]. / Kontrol' za izmeneniem patologicheskogo ochaga i sostoianiia zdorov'ia bol'nogo v protsesse vypolneniia luchevoi terapii.

The effect of therapy of malignancies is at present monitored by X-ray procedures on the basis of the dynamics of the size of lesion. Since such approach fails to provide data on the structure of lesion changes and response to treatment, it is suggested that structural changes in cells of exposed tissues can by monitored by using densitometric data obtained from mammograms and (computed) tomograms, to assess density changes in tumor and adjacent normal tissues. Recovery involves certain systemic changes which can be identified using certain peripheral blood indices; the latter are evaluated using non-statistical applications of the theory of pattern recognition and cluster analysis.

[The surgical treatment of patients with uterine myoma by using endoscopic methods and laser technics]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie bol'nykh miomoi matki s ispol'zovaniem éndoskopicheskikh metodov i lazernoi tekhniki.

The advantages and shortcomings of endoscopic and laser myomectomies in comparison with conventional myomectomy using laparotomy are discussed. A total of 279 patients with uterine myoma were subjected to myomectomy using laparotomy with CO2 laser (n = 109), laparotomy without laser (n = 45), laparoscopy (n = 120), and hysteroscopic removal of submucosal fibroids (n = 5). Comparative statistic analysis of the major intraoperative and early postoperative clinical parameters indicated that laparoscopic myomectomies are associated with an appreciable reduction of blood loss, its duration is the same as that of traditional operation, and the postoperative period runs a more benign course than after conventional surgery.

[The determination of CA-125, CA-19-9 and CEA antigens in gynecologic patients for differential diagnosis and the assessment of the efficacy of surgical treatment and subsequent monitoring]. / Opredelenie antigenov CA 125, CA 19-9 i REA u ginekologicheskikh bol'nykh dlia differentsial'noi diagnostiki i otsenki éffektivnosti operativnogo lecheniia i posleduiushchego monitoringa.

Tumor markers CA 125, CA 19-9, and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) were measured in the blood sera of 396 inpatients of different age. In 139 patients the measurements were carried out over time. Hoffman La Roche enzyme immunoassay test kits were used. Eight groups of women were tested: controls without gynecological diseases, women in need of plastic repair of the genitals, patients with inflammatory diseases, with cervical endometriosis, internal endometriosis, ovarian endometriosis, uterine myoma, benign ovarian tumors, and malignant tumors of the ovaries. The results indicate a relatively high diagnostic value of measuring CA 125 in gynecological patients, particularly in those with endometriosis. Parallel measurements of three markers in the blood serum (CA 125, CA 19-9, and CEA) are more informative for the differential diagnosis of endometriosis and malignant tumors. Follow-up of CA 125 concentration may be used to assess the efficacy of therapy and help early detect the disease recurrences.