[Radiation therapy in treatment of the sclerotic form of pathological rearrangement of bone tissue of the lower extremities]. / Primenenie luchevoi terapii pri lechenii skleroticheskoi formy patologicheskoi perestroiki kostnoi tkani nizhnikh konechnostei.

An analysis was done of treatment of 77 servicemen with a sclerotic form of pathological rearrangement of bones of the inferior limbs. Used in the above subjects was oteoscintillography that promoted the accuracy of diagnosis and allowed the study of the time-related course of the process in bones, which measure permitted correcting the therapeutic regimen designed to deal with the pathology under consideration. The complex of conservative treatment was supplemented by a course of gamma-radiation therapy in a cumulative dose of 1.6 Gy, which measure has been shown to yield better results as compared with the control group of patients.

[Immune disorders and their correction in patients with primary and recurrent pneumonias]. / Immunnye narusheniia i ikh korrektsiia u bol'nykh pervichnoi i povtornoi pnevmoniei.

Data are submitted of the analysis of indices for humoral and cell-mediated immunity in those patients presenting with recurrent pneumonias versus the above indices in patients with sporadic forms of the illness. Shown in patients with recurrent pneumonias is formation and progression of T-lymphocyte derangement associated with decline in their functional activity, which event is characteristic of different clinical types of acquired immune deficient states.