[The comparative efficacy of the treatment at Sochi of women with inflammatory diseases of the lesser pelvis who live in different climatic and geographical regions of Russia]. / Sravnitel'naia éffektivnost' lecheniia v Sochi zhenshchin s vospalitel'nymi zabolevaniiami organov malogo taza, prozhivaiushchikh v razlichnykh klimatogeograficheskikh regionakh Rossii.

225 females of reproductive age were treated in Sochi for inflammatory diseases of the small pelvis. The patients underwent climate, balneological, laser treatments and received thymogen. Therapeutic results estimated clinically, by adaptive responses, protein metabolism, proteolysis and ceruloplasmin activity, concentrations of proteolysis inhibitors and middle-mass molecules were analyzed with respect to the patients' residence and the season of their stay in the sanatorium. The best results in warm seasons were achieved in women from south regions. In northerners and some residents of middle Russia there were adaptive failures. For them, cool seasons were more advantageous. The authors recommend cool Sochi weather for treatment of small pelvis diseases in women living in the north, south and middle Russia.

[Effect of health resort treatment on the status of the oxidant and antioxidant systems in women with disordered reproductive function residing in the area of the Chernobyl Atomic Power Plant accident]. / Vliianie kurortnogo lecheniia na sostoianie oksidantnoi i antioksidantnoi sistemy u zhenshchin s narushennoi reproduktivnoi funktsiei, prozhivaiushchikh v zone avarii na Chernobyl'skoi AES.

Lipid peroxidation system and its reaction to balneotherapy (hydrogen sulfide and iodine bromide exposure) were examined in 60 women with reproductive system disorders living in radionuclide pollution zone after the Chernobyl accident. Certain specificities of lipid peroxidation system in this patient population were detected and a favorable effect of the said balneotherapy noted.