[Choice of renal replacement therapy in patients with complicated uremia]. / Vybor metodov zamestitel'noi pochechnoi terapii u bol'nykh s oslozhnennoi uremiei.

Fourteen patients with complicated uremia and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome were treated by renal replacement therapy (RRT), by hemodialysis and hemodiafiltration. Control group consisted of 14 age-matched convalescents without clinical and laboratory signs of uremia and systemic inflammatory response syndrome. The potentialities of Integral Diagnostic Expert Analytical System (IDEAS) based on the spectrophotokinetic (SPK) technique (ECOTEST, Russia; Thermo Labsystems, Finland) were evaluated on the basis of objective evaluation of clinical condition of end-stage renal disease patients. SPK technology proved to be a highly informative method of automated diagnosis, which allows monitoring the dialysis efficiency, detecting combined diseases and poor system's biocompatibility, which, in turn, permits correction of the treatment and realization of a differentiated approach to the choice of RRT method.

[A new rapid automated photometric method in analysis of quantitative indicators of food product contamination]. / Novaia avtomatizirovannaia fotometricheskaia ékspress-metodika dlia analiza kolichestvennykh pokazatelei obsemenennosti produktov pitaniia.

Thirty-five specimens of pasteurized milk were tested for bacterial contamination by rapid autocalibration photometry for liquid, semiliquid, and homogenized hard foodstuffs, developed by the Ecotest Firm, Russia. Photometric (turbidimetric) analysis was carried out using the Labsystems (Finland) iEMS Reader plate photometer and Russian Analitika BACT software. The results of traditional analysis and the new rapid method developed by Ecotest were in good correlation, the differences did not surpass the magnitude of errors of measurements. The new method takes just 10-15 h instead of the routine 72 h and requires 300 times less nutrient media.