[Use of laser- and extremely high frequency magnetic therapy in the preoperative period before diskectomy]. / Ispol'zovanie lazer- i krainevysokochastnoi élektromagnitnoi terapii v predoperatsionnom periode diskéktomii.

Electromagnetic therapy and tractions contributed to reduction of neurovascular structures compression evident not only from regression of clinical symptoms but also from improvement of regional hemodynamics, functional condition of the affected nerves and muscles of the limbs. This prediscectomy preparation appeared an effective conservative treatment for 69% patients. The rest patients benefited from such preoperative preparation which provided stabilization of the patients' condition before and after dyscectomy.

[Changes in the cellular immunity factors in suppurative complications of penetrating craniocerebral trauma]. / Izmenenie faktorov kletochnogo immuniteta pri gnoinykh oslozhneniiakh pronikaiushchei cherepno-mozgovoi travmy.

The authors examined patients with penetrating cerebrocranial trauma (CCT) and uneventful course of traumatic disease (30) and those with CCT complicated by intracranial purulent process (24 persons). A direct correlation of the marked character and severity of the clinical course of the posttraumatic period and the changes in the immune system was revealed. Increase of the level of neutrophil rosette formation, indices of the NST test, the activity and intensity of neutrophil phagocytosis in penetrating CCT allows the development of an intracranial purulent process to be predicted at an early stage before the appearance of clinical sings. Decrease of the number of spontaneous rosette-forming and formazan-positive neutrophils is an indication of an unfavourable course of an intracranial purulent complication with a fatal outcome.