[Examination of the local antioxidative system of the eye in experimental corneal burn injury and the prospects for pharmacological correction of its parameters].

The present paper deals with the study of the efficiency of oral use of the antioxidative drug Immugen (a complex of alpha-tocopherol, oubichinone, selenium aspartate, methionine, and soyabean phospholipids) on a rabbit model of severe alkaline-induced corneal burn. The investigations have indicated that addition of Immugen to the rabbit feed exerts a significant positive effect on the parameters of the local antioxidative system of the eye and causes an increase in the activity of superoxide dismutase and catalase, and, on day 14, in antioxidative activity. The early experimental periods were marked by a slight rise in the frequency of deep corneal ulcerations. Moreover, the long-term clinical effect of use of Immugen appears as a significant increase in the area of the transparency-preserving affected cornea. The findings suggest that the antioxidants can show their optimal effect in the complex therapy for burn processes, including the use of proteinase inhibitors.

[The basic mechanisms of microcirculatory disorders before and during operations in children with developmental defects of the kidneys and urinary tract]. / Osnovnye mekhanizmy narushenii mikrotsirkuliatsii do i vo vremia operatsii u detei s porokami razvitiia pochek i mochevyvodiashchikh putei.

The authors studied biomicroscopic picture of microcirculation in the vessels of bulbar conjunctiva, renal hemodynamics, blood cell metabolism in 50 patients aged 3-12 with renal and ureteral defects. By morphology of the kidneys assessed at aortography, computer renangiography and other tests 2 groups of children were identified: bilateral congenital urological disorder combined with severe advanced dysplasia of the renal tissue and the ureter, low renal function (group 1); light or moderate disorder of renal function, minimal dysplasia of the renal tissue. In children with renal and urinary defects with renal dysfunction there was systemic abnormal microcirculation (group 1) characterized by severe capillarotrophic insufficiency in the form of unusual winding of all the microvessels, formation of vascular loops and balls, narrowing of capillary lumen, etc. in the presence of acute arteriolar spasm and rheological alterations in microvessels. In addition to functional changes in arteriolar tone, mechanisms of microcirculatory disturbances in children with congenital surgical disorders of the kidneys and urinary tracts involve membrane-destructive processes. Changes in phospholipids level and their spectrum in plasma and red cell membranes, a rise in the activity of phospholipase A and C in the serum and red cell membranes exhibit close correlation with microhemodynamic impairment. Instructions are provided for conduction of preoperative preparation and multicomponent anaesthesia with allowances for principal mechanisms of microcirculatory disorders in children with severe congenital renal and urinary affections.