[Effect of dietotherapy on the blood serum protein content of patients with torpid and latent recurrent rheumocarditis]. / Vliianie dietoterapii na soderzhanie nekotorykh belkov syvorotki krovi u bol'nykh vialo i latentno tekushchim vozvratnym revmokarditom.

A group of 85 patients with a minimal activity of rheumatic process received the diet with a high protein content (130 to 140 g). The effect of the high protein diet was evaluated according to the time-course of changes in the content of individual blood serum proteins (albumin, prealbumin, alpha1-antitrypsin, alpha2-macroglobulin, transferrin, ceruloplasmin, orosomucoid, fibrinogen, haptoglobin, IgG, IgM, IgA, IgD, IgE, complement components: C1-inhibitor, C3, C4, C5 and C9). It was revealed that the dietetic management brought about not only the improvement of the general status and reduction of the clinical manifestations of the disease but also exerted a favourable action on the concentration of serum proteins assayed.

[Comparative evaluation of the role of protein in the diet therapy of ischemic heart disease and rheumatism with a slight degree of activity]. / Sravnitel'naia otsenka roli belka v dietoterapil boly'nykh ishemicheskoi bolezn'iu serdtsa i revmatizmom s maloi stepen'iu aktivnosti protsessa.

The patients with chronic heart disease (265 subjects) and with little active rheumatic fever (145 subjects) received two variants of isocaloric diets which differed only in protein quota. The former diet contained the physiological norm of protein (100 g) and the latter one a higher quota (130 g). As a result of the treatment the subjective sensations and objective status of all the patients improved. Evaluation of the time course of lipid metabolism, the system of hemostasis, capillary permeability and immunological reactivity showed that the diet containing the physiological norm of protein appeared the most effective in patients with ischemic heart disease, whereas that with a higher protein quota turned out the most adequate in patients with rheumatic fever.

[Effect of diet therapy on the immunological indices in rheumatism]. / Vliianie dietoterapii na nekotorye immunologicheskie pokazateli u bol'nykh revmatizmom.

Rheumatic patients with torpid and latent course of the process were kept on a protein-rich diet (up to 140.0 g of protein). The effect of the diet on the organism was appraised by the peripheral blood lymphocytes blast-transformation reaction, as the one most comprehensively reflecting the immunological status of the individual. The patients were examined in dynamics, on admission to and at the time of discharge from the clinic. The data thus obtained suggest that the protein-rich diet tends to bring down the number of activated cells in in vitro cultures.

[Readaptive mechanisms arising during diet therapy]. / Osobennosti readaptivnykh mekhanizmov, voznikaiushchikh v protsesse dieticheskoi terapii

Results of clinical observations and special investigations characterizing peculiar features of readaptive mechanisms emerging under the effect of dietetic therapy are reported. The most favourable shifts in the metabolic status of the patients are shown to occur under the influence of dietetic therapy by the end of the 2nd and at the beginning of the 3d week of the treatment. Toward the end of the treatment there is seen stabilization of readaptive reactions which can be later regulated by a prolonged outpatient treatment.

[Effect of a high-protein diet on clinical and some biochemical indices of patients with torpid and latent courses of recurrent rheumatic heart disease]. / Vliianie vysokobelkovoi diety na klinicheskie i nekotorye biokhimicheskie pokazateli u bol'nykh vialo i latentno tekushchim vozvratnym revmokarditom

The effect of a protein-rich diet containing 141 g of protein on the clinical and some biochemical findings in 145 patients with a torpidly, and latently running recurrent rheumatic heart disease was studied. Pertinent observations have shown the protein-rich diet to have a very beneficial effect on the clinico-biochemical and immunological indices that are pathognomic of rheumatism with low activity and torpid course.