[Clinical and Laboratory Predictors for Forecasting the Outcomes of Ixodes Tick-Borne Borreliosis].

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to identify the most informative clinical and laboratory predictors of chronicity of Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis in the acute phase of the disease based on the "optimal cut-off values" (COV) and the predicted probability of the outcomes. METHODS: A retrospective cohort controlled study was carried out. We used the technique of ROC-analysis to estimate the information content of the clinical and laboratory indicators in patients with Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis in the acute phase of the disease with erythemal (n =16), non-erythemal (n = 77) forms of Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis and co-infection with the tick-borne encephalitis (n = 68) for the prediction of the outcomes: recovery or chronization. RESULTS: A retrospective analysis of clinical and laboratory parameters recorded in the acute phase of the disease in 161 patients with chronic Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis. The calculations were performed for the informative clinical and laboratory prognostic predictors of the outcomes for the intervals above and below the COVvalues are defined probabilities of recovery or chronization of Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis. A general predictor of outcomes for all clinicalforms of the disease--the interleukin 8--was established: the probability of chronization after erythemal form is 100.0% at the level of its production over 107.89 pg/ml (AUC = 1.0), after non-erythemal form is 54.63 ± 0.23% at serum concentrations above 94.64 pg/ml (AUC = 0.770), after co-infection with the tick-borne encephalitis is 52.69 ± 0.27% at the level of interleukin 8 above 84.96 pg/ml (AUC = 0.780). CONCLUSION: The results of the study suggest the possibility of predicting the outcomes of infection in the acute phase, which allows to optimize the etiopathogenic therapy of the disease in a timely manner.

[Mechanisms of immune and cytokine regulation in pathogenesis of ixodes tick-borne borreliosis].

BACKGROUND: Our aim was to identify the mechanisms of immune and cytokine regulation in different clinical forms of Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis. METHODS: The clinical observations performed on 581 patients with erythemic (113 patients), non-eritemic (242 patients) forms of Ixodes tick- borne borreliosis and Borrelia co-infection tick-borne encephalitis (226 patients) in the manifestation of the disease. The examination included the determination of the levels of cytokines (interleukin 1ß, 4, 8, and tumor necrosis factor α), indicators of cell immunity (CD3+, CD4+, CD8+) and phagocytosis (phagocytic index, the number of phagocytic neutrophils) during the height of the disease and during convalescence. RESULTS: We established the correlations of cytokine production, lymphocyte subpopulations and phagocytosis. Revealed divergent immune-mediated mechanisms of pathogenesis, depending on the clinical forms of Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis and period of the disease, indicating the complexity and diversity of the immune system rearrangements. Cytokine regulation of immune response, mainly consists in the synthesis of the chemoattractant interleukin 8 production which is inversely correlated with the number of phagocytic neutrophils (r = -0.440, p < 0.001) with erythemic form of the disease, is directly correlated with the level of interleukin 4 (r = 0.313, p < 0.001) at non-eritemic form borreliosis, with the production of interleukin 1ß (r = 0.367, p < 0.001) and interleukin 4 (r = 0.348, p < 0.001) in Borrelia co-infection tick-borne encephalitis. CONCLUSION: In the manifestation of acute Borrelia infection, regardless of the clinicalform was typical Th1/Th2 type of immune response and then switches to the period of convalescence for Th1 (cellular) immune response in the form of erythemic Ixodes tick-borne borreliosis and Borrelia co-encephalitic tick-borne infection, and Th2 (humoral) immune response when non-eritemic form of the disease.

[Effects of immunotropic therapy on the structure of system-forming indices in patients with urgent surgical pathology].

An investigation of system-forming indices of severity of the state and intoxication in 276 patients with urgent surgical pathology depending on using immunotropic medicines has revealed differences in the significance of factors of system-forming indices and functional load on the inflammation mechanisms depending on the inclusion of immunotropic medicines in the complex treatment.