[Effectiveness of bioparox treatment in acute inflammatory diseases of the upper airways]. / Effektivnost' lecheniia bioparoksom ostrykh vospalitel'nykh zabolevanii verkhnikh dykhatel'nykh putei.

Acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract was treated with bioparox in 40 patients and conventionally in 20 patients. The assessment of the treatment effect was carried out by subjective and objective responses, rhinomanometry, trends in cell composition and phagocytic activity of leukocytes in smears from nasal mucosa. The data obtained provided evidence for high efficacy of bioparox which promoted faster regress of subjective and objective manifestations of the inflammation.

[Method for angiographic identification of the labyrinth artery]. / Metod angiograficheskoi identifikatsii labirintnoi arterii.

Digital subtraction angiography in Stenvers standard setting performed atraimatically has been tried in 106 emergency cases admitted to N. V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Critical Care. This new method of identification (in 75% of the cases) and verification of the labyrinthine artery intravitally proved safe and reliable. The patients were exposed to cerebral angiography by various methods for diagnosis of the underlying disease. Standard methods of vertebral angiography were found unsatisfactory.

[Radiologic anatomy of the labyrinth artery]. / Rentrenoanatomiia labirintnoi arterii.

Carotid and vertebral angiographic investigations were performed to study x-ray anatomy of the artery of the labyrinth (AL) in 96 inpatients admitted to the N. F. Sklifosovsky emergency care clinic. According to the angiograms, AL originated from the distal parts of the inferior anterior cerebellar artery in 66.3% of the patients. In this case it has a straight form. When initiating from the proximal parts of the basilar artery (33.7% of the patients), AL was shorter (0.8 +/- 0.3 against 2.5 +/- 0.8 cm) and curved. In any case AL was situated along the upper edge of the pyramid before it entered the internal acoustic meatus. By the meatus or inside it AL forms a characteristic loop or semiloop. A complete AL left-right symmetry was observed in 61.8% of the cases.

[Clinico-morphologic aspects of chronic mesotympanitis]. / Kliniko-morfologicheskie aspekty pri khronicheskom mezotimpanite.

The present authors examined 84 patients with chronic mesotympanitis, 72 of which showed pathological lesions of the middle ear mucosa and bone. This was confirmed by X-ray contrasting examination before surgery and histological examination of tissue samples. Histological analysis showed that the level of destructive changes in middle ear cavities depended on the disease duration. Fibrous tissues of varying degree of maturity, cholesteatoma, tympanosclerotic patches, encapsulated fragments of caries bone frequently cause blockade of the aditus which complicates the chronic process in middle ear cavities and should be regarded as an absolute indication for surgical treatment of chronic mesotympanitis.

[Effect of splenin and its fractions on the functional state of the adrenal cortex]. / Vliianie splenina i ego fraktsii na funktsional'noe sostoianie kory nadpochechnikov.

Effect of splenin (1 ml) and its fractions (0.5 ml) on adrenocortical function was studied after a single intramuscular injection of the preparations into rats. Splenin and its fractions containing water-soluble substances reduced the content of ascorbic acid in the rat adrenals thereby indicating the increased synthesis of adrenocortical hormones. Adenosine-5-monophosphate is one of the basic biological substances contained by splenin and its water-soluble fractions. It produces a stimulant effect on the synthesis of adrenocortical hormones.