[The parameters of blood and leukocytic intoxication index in the evaluation of the severity of inflammatory, purulent, and pyodestructive diseases].

Studies of the leukocytic intoxication index (LII), leukocytes, and lymphocytes in patients with inflammatory, purulent, and pyodestructive diseases of the abdomen, lung, and soft tissues at the height of disease have ascertained that LII progressively increased and the relative count of lymphocytes decreased with the worse health status in all groups of patients, particularly in ineffectively treated patients who subsequently died. However, in these patients, the absolute count of lymphocytes did not always tend to decrease. The persistent high LII concurrent with lymphocytopenia indicated a poor prognosis. Leukocytes had less pronounced changes in this respect.

[Some blood indices and the leukocytic index of intoxication in tuberculosis, pneumonias, abscesses, and cancer of the lung].

Examining the values of hemoglobin, red and white blood cells, differential count, and leukocytic index of intoxication (LII) in patients with tuberculosis, abscesses, pneumonias, and cancer of the lung indicated that in accordance with clinical and X-ray findings, LII and the count of lymphocytes reflected the degree of patients' health status to the greatest extent. These blood values were of the greatest prognostic value. In lung cancer, LII increased only when inflammatory and purulent complications occurred. Erythrocyte sedimentation rates had a greater tendency to increase in nonspecific processes, which may be occasionally of differential diagnostic value.

[The leukocytic index of intoxication and some blood parameters in the evaluation of the severity of inflammatory, purulent, and pyodestructive diseases at various sites and in the determination of their prognosis].

The leukocytic index of intoxication (LII), hemoglobin, leukocytes, and lymphocytes were studied in patients with inflammatory, purulent, and pyodestructive diseases of the abdomen, lung, and soft tissues. It was shown that Lll progressively increased and the levels of lymphocytes decreased as the states deteriorated in all groups of patients, particularly in those who died due to ineffective treatment. This all testifies to the diagnostic and predictive value of these parameters and they may be wider used in the treatment of patients with inflammatory, purulent, and pyodestructive diseases at various sites. This is indicated by the values obtained by the end of treatment of patients.