[Herpesvirus infections in immunocompromised patients].

Testing of immunocompromised patients for markers of beta-herpesviruses--human herpesvirus type 6 (HHV-6) and cytomegalovirus (CMV), as well as gamma-herpesvirus--Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), revealed that all mentioned infections are frequently detected, mainlyas mixed infections. Chronic HHV-6 infection was diagnosed in more than half of the patients, whereas markers of acute phase of CMV and EBV infections were detected in 25% and 15% of patients respectively.

[Antibodies to the infective agents of opportunistic infections in blood of patients with hemoblastosis complicated with pneumonia].

The examination of 112 hematological patients with diagnosed acute and chronic leucosis, lymphoma, myeloma, anemia, melanoma and other diseases revealed not a single subject among these examinees in whom no markers of opportunistic infections were detected. Low titers of antibodies to Pneumocystis carinii, cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) were noted in 42%, 46.4% and 40.2% of examinees, respectively. Markers of acute diseases, such as class IgM, IgG antibodies in high titers, as well as P.carinii, CMV, EBV antigens, were detected in 37.5%, 30.4% and 22.3% of patients of a hematological hospital. In the group of comparison (donors) these figures were, respectively, 15.3%, 2.4% and 6.9%. The signs of monoinfection were detected in 11.6% (pneumocystosis), in 10.7% (CMV infection) and in 14.3% (EBV infection), while the markers of two infections, EBV infection and pneumocystosis, were detected in 9.8%, EBV and CMV infections in 11.6%, pneumocystosis and CMV infection in 14.3%; mixed contamination with all three infective agents was detected in 12.5% of the patients.

[Effects of low-intensity laser irradiation on several parameters of microcirculation in the bulbar conjunctiva of patients with scleroderma]. / Vliianie nizkointensivenogo lazernogo izlucheniia na nekotorye pokazateli mikrotsirkuliatsii bul'barnoi kon"iunktivy u bol'nykh sklerodermiei.

Computer-aided analytical system of TV images (CASTI) of the anterior segment of the eye revealed an appreciable increase of the level of aggregation gradient in arterioles and venules of the bulbar conjunctiva of 37 children suffering from various forms of scleroderma, as against 18 healthy children. Exposure to low-energy laser of a close infrared band (approximately 890 nm) had a favorable impact on blood aggregation in patients with scleroderma. CASTI of the anterior segment of the eye proved to be an objective and highly informative method for the diagnosis and monitoring of the efficacy of various treatment modalities.

[Characteristics of the development and health status of children born to mothers with systemic lupus erythematosus]. / Osobennosti razvitiia i zdorov'ia detei, rodivshikhsia ot materei s sistemnoi krasnoi volchankoi.

Altogether 40 children born to mothers with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were observed over time. There were 24 boys and 16 girls aged 6 months to 14 years. The children born to SLE mothers constituted an unusual group with predomination of males. Such children should be viewed as threatened with regard to the development of infectious and allergic diseases and as mandating the inclusion into the risk group.