[The clinical and functional evaluation of the combined treatment of vasomotor rhinitis in the children].

The objective of the present work was the comparative analysis of the results of the application of different methods for the treatment of the children presenting with vasomotor rhinitis. It was shown that the proposed combined approach including remedial therapy for the normalization of the function of the vegetative nervous system and the local application of fluctuating current to the nasal cavity mucosa has an advantage over the traditional modalities. Specifically, this newly developed simple and efficacious method for the combined conservative treatment of vasomotor rhinitis in the children has practically no contraindications for use, yields the most stable positive functional outcomes, and can by recommended for the application in both inpatient and outpatient settings to manage the patients with vasomotor rhinitis.

[The experimentally-based rationale for the application of the new methods designed to treat fungal adenoiditis in the children].

The objective of the present was to evaluate the influence of local anesthetics protargol, miramistin, chlorohexidine, and photodynamic therapy (PDT) on the polyresistant strain of Candida tropicalis isolated from a sick child presenting with fungal adenoiditis. In vitro experiments were designed to estimate the inactivation potential of the Candida tropicalis blastospore suspension (5.107 CFU/ml) following the preliminary incubation with a 5 mcmol/l methylene blue solution. A Kreolka FDT apparatus operated at the 680 nm wavelength was employed as the source of radiation in a broad power and time ranges. Simultaneously, experiments were carried out to determine the minimum concentration of the protargol, miramistin, and chlorohexidine solutions inhibiting the growth of the same fungal strain. The minimum growth inhibitory concentrations of these solutions were found to be 0.1%, 0.005%, and 0.005% respectively. The photodynamic therapy using the minimal inhibitory dose of 150 J with a 5 min exposition and an output power of 0.5 W completely suppressed the growth of the Candida tropicalis colonies in the presence of methylene blue as the photosensitizer.

[Conservative therapy and surgical treatment of chronic tonsillitis in the children].

The objective of the present study was to undertake the statistical analysis of the methods employed to treat tonsillitis in the children with a view to optimizing adequate dispensary observation, planned conservative therapy and surgical treatment of the patients presenting with chronic tonsillitis. The analysis of the excerpts from the annual reports presented by the head of the otorhinolaryngological department of the Children's City Clinical Hospital No 9 involved the patients admitted for the pre-planned and urgent treatment of paratonsillar abscess between 1990 and 2010. It was shown that the number of children with paratonsillar abscess increased during this period from 5.8 to 12.0%. At the same time, the number of such patients undergoing surgery for the treatment of toxico-allergic forms (TAF-I and TAF-II) decreased from 26.7 to 8.7-11.6% of their total number admitted to the department for the treatment of pharyngeal pathology. These diseases developed in the children frequently ill with chronic tonsillitis after its recurrent exacerbations. Importantly, all these children were registered in the dispensaries of district out-patient clinics at the places of residence and repeatedly underwent courses of conservative therapy of chronic tonsillitis that either resulted in the temporary improvement of their health conditions or produced no effect whatever. Nevertheless, no district otorhinolaryngologist recommended tonsillectomy to a child with chronic tonsillitis. It is concluded that adequate regular medical check-ups in combination with the planned courses of conservative treatment and hospitalization of the patients in due time for the surgical treatment (tonsillectomy) permit to reduce the frequency of complications of such an insidious disease as chronic tonsillitis.

[Analysis of delayed consequences of lowered surgical activity for children with chronic tonsillitis].

Materials for the analysis of medical histories of the patients admitted for planned tonsillectomy and those in need of emergency surgical treatment for paratonsillar abscess were collected in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, G.N. Speransky City Children's Clinical Hospital No 9 during the periods from 1990 to 2007. Simultaneously, analysis of the work of the Departments of Cardiorheumatology and Nephrology of the same hospital was undertaken. It was shown that the reduction in the number of surgical interventions for the treatment of different forms of chronic tonsillitis in the last years resulted in the increased frequency of local complications and concomitant morbidity.

[Therapeutic and diagnostic criteria of choice of treatment methods in adenoid vegetations as a focus of chronic infection in childhood].

Clinical, laboratory and device methods were used in examinations of 175 children. Basing on the results of the above examinations, therapeutic and diagnostic criteria of choice of a method of treating adenoid vegetations in children were proposed.

[Sparing conservative surgery in children with chronic purulent otitis media]. / Shchadiashchee konservativno-khirurgicheskoe lechenie detei s khronicheskim gnoinym srednim otitom.

A novel method of treatment of otitis media purulenta chronica in children implies administration of donor (from the parents or donor with the same blood group) plasm possessing a complete set of humoral and cellular immunity components. As a monotherapy, plasm treatment proved highly effective both before surgery and after it.