[Features of immune disorders in miners who took part in cleaning up after the accident at Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station]. / Osobennosti narusheniia immuniteta u gornorabochikh, preinimavshikh uchastie v likvidatsii posledstvii avarii ha ChAES.

ABSTRACT

The condition was studied of the immune and nervous system in 72 miners who took part in the elimination of the aftermaths of the Chernobyl accident and in 30 miners of the control group. Ascertained in the miners-liquidators was the presence of imbalance of T-cells of the immune system and disorder of the humoral immunity. The patients displayed changes in the blood content of sodium, increased concentrations of iron, zink, and lead, and diminished amounts of cuprum. In this group pathology of the vegetative nervous system, vascular and vestibular abnormalities were found with high frequency. The findings secured attest to the need for taking account of particular features of disordered immunity, abnormalities of metabolism and nervous regulation in instituting a complex therapy in miners-liquidators.