[Complex use of naphthalane and nonselective chromotherapy in gonarthrosis treatment in rolling stock workers].

Complex treatment using naphthalane applications with nonselective chromotherapy covered 64 engine operators of locomotive crews, aged 40-69 years, having 1-3 stage knee osteoarthrosis. Findings are that optimized treatment schedules effectively reduce intensity of pain, improve functional state of the joints involved, increase life quality of the patients, have no side effects. Comparative analysis of the treatment results showed that efficiency of combined naphthalane and nonselective chromotherapy exceeds isolated naphthalane effects.

[Depending on exposure, functional state of left ventricle in combined cardiovascular disease among chronic uranium intoxication patients].

State of left heart contractility in patients having IHD and AH during long-term period of chronic uranium intoxication depends on duration of exposure to toxic radiation factor. The authors revealed left ventricle myocardium weight decreased by 11.7% on exposure up to 10 years and that decreased by 18.9% on the exposure over 10 years, when compared to the reference group. Longer length of service was connected with higher share of patients with pathologic remodelling of left ventricle, mostly due to increased concentric remodelling.

[Pathomorphosis and contemporary evolution of occupational and occupationally mediated diseases].

The authors present results of studies concerning pathomorphosis mechanisms underlying contemporary forms of occupational and occupationally mediated diseases. Systemic general pathologic approach enabled to specify importance of universal homeostatic mechanisms disorders at various structural and functional levels in pathogenesis of major disease types.

[Epidemiologic and radiobiologic features of neoplasms in respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts among patients who had occupational contact with uranium].

Morbidity structure among workers engaged into main production of nuclear industry had prevailing lung cancer (1.93 per 1,000), gastric carcinoma (1.09) and colon cancer (0.72). The lung cancer patients demonstrated the highest concentrations of uranium in lung tissue (0.8313 g/g) and liver tissue (0.3548 g/g); those with gastric carcinoma and of reference group--in lung radix nodes (0.1855 and 0.3685 g/g respectively).

[Genesis under occupational exposure to toxic and radiation hazards].

The authors studied frequency, periods of development and morbidity structure of malignances among chronic uranium intoxication patients. tumors were diagnosed in 19.1% of the cases. Neoplasms developed in the presence of uranium intoxication symptoms in 57.8% of the patients, occurred after the occupational disease was ruled out in 42.2% of the cases. The oncologic morbidity structure was presented mostly by tumors of gastro-intestinal tract (33.3%) and respiratory system (20%).

[Functional cardiovascular status in patients with high blood pressure and coronary heart disease in a remote period of uranium intoxication]]. / Funktsional'noe sostoianie serdechno-sosudistoi sistemy u bol'nykh arterial'noi gipertoniei i ishemichskoi bolezn'iu serdtsa v otdalennyi uranovoi intoksikatsii.

High blood pressure and coronary heart disease in far-off period of chronic uranium intoxication result in re-modelling of left ventricle with predominant concentric re-modelling. Lower myocardial mass of left ventricle and more marked changes in diastolic function occurred in the main group if compared to the reference one having no contact with occupational hazards.

[The use of low-frequency magnetotherapy and EHF puncture in the combined treatment of arterial hypertension in vibration-induced disease]. / Primenenie nizkochastotnoi magnitoterapii i KVCh-punktury v kompleksnom lechenii arterial'noi gipertenzii pri vibratsionnoi bolezni.

Combination of EHF therapy + magnetotherapy + drugs results in faster and persistent hypotensive and analgetic effect compared to standard drug therapy, potentiates action of vascular drugs on cerebral and peripheral circulation, reduces dose of hypotensive drugs in patients with arterial hypertension and vibration disease.