[Value of serum immunoglobulin assays in early myocardial infarction]. / Intérêt du dosage des immunoglobulines sériques lors de l'installation d'un infarctus du myocarde.

Serum immunoglobulin (Ig) levels were assayed in 672 patients admitted for acute myocardial infarction with onset within 24 hours of hospitalization. Supranormal Ig levels (A > or = 300, G > or = 1,200) or subnormal Ig levels (M < 40 mg/100 ml) were seen in patients with one or several risk factors (diabetes mellitus, alcohol abuse) or a history of previous myocardial infarction. Patients with one or more Ig anomalies were more likely to exhibit unfavorable outcomes, including early death, suggesting that increased viscosity due to aggregation of Ig molecules may occur.

[Various indices of immunity in patients with alcoholic delirium]. / Nekotorye pokazateli immuniteta u bol'nykh alkogol'nym deliriem.

Seventy-four patients with alcoholic delirium were studied for the parameters of the T- and B-system of immunity and natural resistance. The patients versus normal donors presented a statistically significant decrease in the number and proliferative activity of T-lymphocytes, an increase in IgA, as well as a reduction in levels of lysozyme, complement and bactericidal activity of the serum. The presence of immunological shifts after the completion of detoxifying therapy suggests that treatment should be continued even after the disappearance of psychic disturbances.

[Role of the abstinence syndrome in the development of alcoholic encephalopathy]. / O roli abstinentnogo sindroma v razvitii alkogol'noi éntsefalopatii.

Using the complement fixation test cerebral antibodies were examined in the blood serum of 389 patients with alcoholism (Stage II). Patients with the alcoholic abstinence syndrome and those with acute psychoses of the abstinence period tended to display such antibodies significantly more frequently than the control group. This evidence points to a destructive organic (encephalopathic) nature of pathologic process in both cases. The use of acupuncture in controlling the abstinence syndrome is substantiated pathogenetically.

[Bone marrow plasma cell reaction in alcoholic patients]. / Plazmakletochnaia reaktsiia kostnogo mozga u bol'nykh alkogolizmom.

A study of plasmocellular reactions of the bone marrow in alcoholism and alcoholic psychoses demonstrated an increase in the amount of plasmatic cells, a prevalence of mature plasmatic elements with distinctly marked basophilia and a reaction of clasmatosis. These facts indicate the functional preservation in alcoholism of the system of B cells, the derivatives of which are plasmatical elements; of an increase in the protein synthesis (including antibodies) as well as a prevalence of the so-called productive phase of immunogenesis over the adaptive.