Concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, and zinc in human placentas from two cities in Ukraine.

Ukraine is a highly industrialized country with major environmental problems and deteriorating reproductive health. Heavy metals are known reproductive toxins; a study was undertaken to determine whether they were present at sufficient concentrations to be playing a major role in these health problems. Placental concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, and zinc were determined in 200 women from the general population of two urban areas of Ukraine, Kyiv and Dniprodzerzhinsk. Arsenic was detected in only 5% of the samples, lead in 22%, and mercury in 28%. Cadmium was detected in almost all samples, with a median of 5.2 ng/g. Concentrations of lead, mercury, and cadmium were low compared to those reported elsewhere, while zinc and copper concentrations were comparable.

[The characteristics of the local protective factors in disseminated suppurative peritonitis]. / Osobennosti faktorov mestnoi zashchity pri rasprostranennom gnoinom peritonite.

A comparative evaluation was done of factors of the local and systemic immunity in 18 patients with diffuse pyoperitonitis. Morphological (neutrophiles from the abdominal cavity in patients with peritonitis retrieve NBT in a diffuse-dotted fashion whereas neutrophiles of blood give a diffuse pattern and by granules) and functional (reduced metabolic activity of abdominal neutrophiles in a spontaneous NBT-test and an augmented index for the reserve versus metabolic activity of blood neutrophiles) differences in local and systemic factors of immune defence were noted. It is shown that the content of all classes of immunoglobulins is significantly lower in the peritoneal exudate than it is in blood serum. The above facts are to be considered in treatment of patients with generalized purulent peritonitis.

[Immunomodulator sensitivity in patients with peritonitis]. / Chuvstvitel'nost' bol'nykh s peritonitom k immunomoduliatoram.

The indexes of the loading rosetteforming tests were studied up in vitro in 10 healthy persons and in 12 patients with peritonitis. In the patients the hyporeactive type of reactivity and multidirectional reaction on immunomodulators was revealed more frequently by comparison with such in a healthy persons. The individual option of the immunocorrecting agents is mandatory in patients with an acute peritonitis.

[Evaluation of severity of the state of patients with peritonitis by the modified APACHE II system]. / Otsenka tiazhesti sostoianiia bol'nykh s peritonitom s ispol'zovaniem modifitsirovannoi sistemy APACHE II.

According to the APACHE II modified method 201 patient with an acute peritonitis was examined using the results of investigations available during the first 30 min after hospitalization of patient. Veritable differences of the modified APACHE II indexes were established in patients with local and diffuse peritonitis in dead and survived patients and in those who died in the first day and later after hospitalization.

[Complications and adverse effects of laser therapy in patients with suppurative-septic diseases]. / Oslozhneniia i pobochnye éffekty lazernoi terapii u patsientov s gnoino-septicheskimi zabolevaniiami.

The complications and side-effects of laser therapy in 229 patients with septic-purulent diseases were analyzed. Metal taste in oral cavity, sleepiness, vertigo, weakness, sense of heat were the most frequently occurring side-effects of laser therapy observed.