[A comparative evaluation of local therapy methods in treating osteoarthrosis deformans]. / Sravnitel'naia otsenka metodov lokal'noi terapii pri lechenii deformiruiushchego osteoartroza.

71 patients with knee joint osteoarthritis deformans in exacerbation with weak exudative component have received outpatient treatment: intrajoint injections of kenalog with novocaine, jet intra- and periarticular injections of the above drugs, magnetolaser therapy (groups 1, 2 and 3, respectively). The response was obtained in 85, 90 and 75%, respectively. Neither toxicity nor complications were recorded. The above methods are recommended for use in outpatient departments and clinics.

[The efficacy of membrane-stabilizing therapy in patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis]. / Effektivnost' membranostabiliziruiushchei terapii u bol'nykh khronicheskim obstruktivnym bronkhitom.

A membrane stabilizing effect of endobronchial laser therapy and antioxidative drugs piracetam and solcoseril was studied in 83 patients with chronic bronchitis. Malonic dialdehyde was measured to evaluate effects of this treatment on cellular and humoral immunity, blood coagulation and lipid peroxidation. It was found that the addition of membrane stabilizers to standard therapy of chronic bronchitis lowered malonic dialdehyde concentrations while the addition of the stabilizers and endobronchial laser therapy relieved clinical symptoms earlier, improved parameters of immunity, hemostasis and lipid peroxidation.

[The treatment of patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis by using a low-power laser at a general rehabilitation center]. / Lechenie bol'nykh khronicheskim obstruktivnym bronkhitom s ispol'zovaniem nizkoénergeticheskogo lazera v mnogoprofil'nom tsentre reabilitatsii.

100 patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis were examined and treated in the therapeutic department of rehabilitation center. Combined treatment including low-energy laser radiation produced good results. Laser therapy has improved bronchial permeability, sensitivity of bronchial beta 2-receptors to sympathomimetics. As a result, their intake was reduced or discontinued. Laser radiation combined well with other non-pharmacological modalities.

[The role of clinico-pharmacogenetic associations in the prognosis of the outcomes in pneumonias]. / Rol' kliniko-farmakogeneticheskikh assotsiatsii v prognoze iskhodov pnevmonii.

In search of reliable genetic markers of protracted and complicated pneumonia, the authors studied blood groups, haptoglobin phenotype, sulfadimisine acetylation. These markers proved essential for predicting pneumonia course and prognosis.

[The treatment of osteoarthrosis deformans by needle-jet intra- and periarticular drug injections]. / O lechenii deformiruiushchego osteoartroza igol'no-struinymi intra- i periartikuliarnymi in''ektsiiami lekarstvennykh sredstv.

The paper reports pilot experience with jet needle drug injections for knee joint osteoarthrosis deformans running with proliferative involvement. The treatment was performed outpatiently in the disease exacerbations associated with reactive synovitis. Injections of 20 mg kenalog were made with the semiautomatic combined jet injector ISI-I. 24 patients received 71 injections (a mean of 2.1 injections, each). Basic therapy underwent no changes. The course of injections produced improvement in 21 patients (87.5%). The majority of them got better as early as the first injection: arthrosis symptoms and pain alleviated, joint hyperthermia reduced, the mobility, on the contrary, increased. Blood counts showed no negative trends. Complications and exacerbations due to the treatment were not reported. Because of the efficacy, easy performance, painlessness, jet intra- and periarticular injections are believed beneficial and can be used outpatiently.