[Morphological radioautographic study of the palatine tonsils in chronic tonsillitis and healthy subjects].

A pilot morphological (radioautographic) study of healthy and affected palatine tonsils (in hypertrophy and toxic-allergic form of chronic tonsillitis) in children and adults has shown that intensity of biosynthetic processes (protein-synthetic -- RNA synthesis and proliferative activity -- DNA synthesis) in the cells of palatine tonsils and structural changes of their tissues depend on characteristics of pathological process. Microbial penetration into the tonsils with formation of an active focus of chronic infection is traced.

[Dynamic study of antibiotic resistance of bacterial environment of the ENT department]. / Dinamicheskoe issledovanie antibiotikorezistentnosti mikrobnogo fona v otorinolaringologicheskom otdelenii.

A dynamic 4-year monitoring of aerobic bacterial environment in the ENT department shows its relative qualitative stability with predominance of the coccal flora, primarily staphylococcal. Gram-negative flora was represented for the most part with non-fermentating microorganisms, most of them Acinetobacter. A wide-spectrum resistance to antibacterial drugs was found. This resistance has a trend to extend.

[Transcranial duplex scanning in estimation of cerebral hemodynamics in patients with secondary cochleovestibular neuritis]. / Transkranial'noe dupleksnoe skanirovanie v otsenke tserebra'noi gemodinamiki u bol'nykh s vtorichnym kokhleovestibuliarnym nevritom.

The authors present pilot experience with transcranial duplex scanning (TCDS) of the cerebral vessels in 17 patients with secondary cochleovestibular neuritis combined with chronic leptomeningitis (primarily of the posterior cranial fossa). This method has determined extra- and intracranial hemodynamics, characterized arterial and venous blood flow qualitatively and quantitatively, outlined possible genetically determined factors in development of dyscirculatory disorders. Finally, hemodynamic defects of two types were revealed in 12 patients. Type 1 (3 patients) was characterized by asymmetric circulation in the territory of the middle, anterior and posterior cerebral arteries, by the absence of venous congestion. Type 2 (9 patients) was characterized by impaired venous outflow manifesting as higher speed of the blood flow and its phase response along the intracranial veins and sinuses. In 7 patients these defects combined with asymmetric circulation along brain stem arteries. These patients were diagnosed to have perilymphatic labyrinthine hydrops.

[Chronic tonsillitis: therapeutic and diagnostic approaches]. / Lechebno-diagnosticheskie podkhody k probleme khronicheskogo tonzillita.

The article is a brief review of clinical and topographic anatomy of the palatine tonsils. Their role in formation of general and local immunity is shown. Etiological and pathogenetic aspects of chronic tonsillitis are considered: most frequent causing agents, underlying pathogenetic and immunological mechanisms. B.S. Preobrazhensky's and V.T. Palchun's clinical classification of chronic tonsillitis is presented. New approaches to etiopathogenetic treatment of chronic tonsillitis are described.

[The study of aerobic bacterial background and antibiotic-sensitive isolated strains in the ENT department]. / Issledovanie aérobnogo mikrobnogo fona i antibiotikochuvstvitel'nosti vydelennykh shtammov v otorinolaringologicheskom otdelenii.

Aerobic microbes in ENT departments were studied. The following strains were isolated: Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Enterococcus, Acinetobacter, Klebsiella, Pseudomonas, Flavobacter, Citrobacter, Enterobacter, Escherichia, Aspergillus, Candida. 54.5% of the isolated strains were of hospital origin. Comparative evaluation of antibiotic resistance has shown a wide spectrum of resistance of the isolated microorganisms to antimicrobial drugs, among those to the drugs used in the ENT departments.

[The use of betaserk in patients with cochlear-vestibular disorders]. / Primenenie betaserka u bol'nykh s kokhlevestibuliarnymi narusheniiami.

20-year experience with 220 cases of cochleovestibular disorders treated with betaserk shows high efficacy of this drug in the above patients, especially at initial stages of Meniere's disease. Betaserk is recommended for wide outpatient practice.

[Ligenten treatment of sinusitis]. / Primenenie ligentena v lechenii sinusitov.

Efficacy of local treatment with ligenten which was introduced after irrigation of the nasal sinuses was tried versus control intranasal introduction of 1% dioxidin solution. 35 and 25 patients with acute sinusitis or aggravation of chronic purulent sinusitis were treated, respectively. Subjective and objective responses in the study and control groups assessed with the use of sensor-analogue and visual-analogue scale demonstrated higher efficacy of ligenten.

[Use of rovamycin and amox-clav in patients with infectious-inflammatory pathology of the ORL organs]. / Primenenie rovamitsina i amoksiklava u patsientov s infektsionno-vospalitel'noi patologiei LOR-organov.

Clinical and microbiological findings led the authors to the conclusion that antibacterial drugs rovamycin and amox-clav are active against ENT infection and inflammation. The trial included 69 and 42 patients given rovamycin and amox-clav, respectively.

[Lomuzol in the treatment of allergic rhinitis]. / Lomuzol v lechenii allergicheskikh rinitov.

The response to lomuzol was registered in 37 out of 39 patients with allergic rhinitis given lomuzol. In 16 patients the response was complete, in 14 partial, in 7 satisfactory. In 6 patients of placebo no effect was recorded. The drug proved uneffective in hypertrophy of the turbinate bones.