[Morphological characteristics of reparative processes in tuberculosis and the effect of pesticides]. / Morfologicheskaia kharakteristika reparativnykh protsessov pri tuberkuleze, protekaiushchem na fone vozdeistviia pestitsidov.

The paper deals with the results of a comparative morphologic, toxicologic and biochemical study of the character of reparative processes in destructive forms of pulmonary tuberculosis, specific features of non-coordination of collagen metabolism depending on the cumulation of organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides and in the absence of their residual quantities in the patient's body on admission to a hospital and during current antibacterial therapy. The resected and removed lungs and blood of 1063 patients were used for the study. Specific features of a tuberculosis course, the duration and effectiveness of antibacterial therapy, the character of reparative processes, characteristic features of collagen metabolism and collagenosis, the character and dissemination of residual changes due to therapy were established in the compared groups of patients.

[Treatment of the residual cavity after partial pneumonectomy in tuberculosis]. / O lechenii ostatochnoi polosti posle chastichnoi rezektsii legkogo pri tuberkuleze.

Effectiveness of treatment of the residual pleural cavity after partial resection of the lungs was studied in 142 patients. Complex therapeutic treatment (trans-thoracic++ puncture therapy, filling with autologous blood ) and reoperations facilitated clinical healing of 127 patients (89.5%). Satisfactory results were stated in 7 patients (4.9%). Unsatisfactory results due to progressing tuberculosis process were observed in 3 patients (2.1). Five patients died (3.5%).

[The population of Dagestan in the twentieth century (ethno-demographic problems)]. / Narody Dagestana v XX v. (etnodemograficheskie problemy).

PIP: The author presents a historical analysis of the ethnic composition of Russia's Dagestan Autonomous Republic during the twentieth century. Factors considered include the geographic distribution of more than 50 ethnic groups; growth of the total, urban, and rural population; and major ethnic groups. Data are for years 1926, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989. (SUMMARY IN ENG)^ieng

[Effectiveness of therapeutic and surgical treatment after delayed detection of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Effektivnost' terapevticheskogo i khirurgicheskogo lecheniia pri nesvoevremennom vyiavlenii destruktivnogo tuberkuleza legkikh.

The authors studied the results of antibacterial therapy in 647 and the results of surgical treatment in 837 patients. Complex modern antibacterial therapy led to recovery of only 65% of patients, in 20-25% of patients tuberculosis progressed with the formation of chronic forms, lethality was up to 13.0%. Timely undertaken surgical treatment after an ineffective course of antibacterial therapy facilitated stable recovery of 98% of patients with complete restoration of working capacity in 93.2%.

[Partial resection of the lungs in patients with newly detected destructive tuberculosis]. / Chastichnye rezektsii legkikh u bol'nykh s vpervye vyiavlennym destruktivnym tuberkulezom.

The efficacy of partial pneumonectomies in 700 patients with newly-diagnosed destructive tuberculosis preceded by an ineffective antibacterial therapy for 3-15 months was studied. Operations were performed in 411 (58.8%) patients with fibrocavernous tuberculosis, in 173 (24.7%) with cavernous tuberculosis, in 10 (1.4%) with disseminated tuberculosis and cavitation, and in 106 (15.1%) with tuberculoma. Segmental resections were carried out in 214 (30.6%) cases, lobectomies in 309 (44.1%), and combined resections in 177 (25.3%). Immediately good and satisfactory clinical efficacy was achieved in 687 (98.1%) and 7 (1.0%) subjects respectively, the remaining 6 (0.9%) patients died. 3-15 years after the operation, the reactivation of tuberculosis was observed in 14 (2.3%) cases out of the 603 examined. An intensive antibacterial therapy as well as repeated operations made it possible to cure 6 patients, with 5 still under treatment and 3 dead. Later on a stable clinical cure was registered in 595 (98.7%) patients out of the 603 examined.

[Effect of captopril on hemodynamics and physical exertion tolerance in patients with arterial hypertension]. / Vliianie kaptoprila na gemodinamiku i tolerantnost' k fizicheskoi nagruzke u bol'nykh arterial'noi gipertoniei.

The hypotensive effect of captopril was assessed in patients with essential hypertension. Captopril-induced fall in arterial blood pressure was shown to be due to a decrease in total peripheral resistance. Treatment with captopril improved considerably physical stress tolerance, its combinations with a diuretic agent being particularly effective.

[Use of autologous blood for elimination of the residual pleural cavity after pneumonectomy]. / Primenenie autokrovi dlia likvidatsii ostatochnoi plevral'noi polosti posle rezektsii legkikh.

The authors describe a method of liquidation of a postresectional residual cavity by the introduction of the patient's autoblood with antibiotics. When using this method all the factors of the coagulating system of blood are involved in the formation of fibrin and the following formation of fibrothorax, which accelerates the formation of fibrothorax. The proposed method was used in 26 patients with residual pleural cavities after resection of the lungs and facilitated their liquidation and formation of fibrothorax.