[The sociomedical prevention of chronic bronchitis in workers in the mining industry]. / Mediko-sotsial'naia profilaktika khronicheskogo bronkhita u rabochikh gornorudnoi promyshlennosti.

High frequency of risk factors for origination of chronic bronchitis resulted in a striking growth of its prevalence among miners. Employment of the system of medical and social prophylaxis, especially during the stages of evolution of the malady, involving automatic diagnosis and prognostication, correction of immune disorders, recommendations toward adapting work to suit miners and assigning them to jobs for which they are suited--all this makes for reducing morbidity, permits saving the man-power resources making possible a rational distribution thereof among mining enterprises, which facts enable a substantial social and economic effect to be achieved.

[The use of laser therapy in dust-induced bronchitis]. / Ispol'zovanie lazeroterapii pri pylevykh bronkhitakh.

Low-intensive laser was used in the treatment of dust bronchitis with bronchospastic syndrome. As a result, bronchospasms were relieved, the external respiration function improved and corticosteroid preparation dosages were lowered. Stimulation of the immune system was performed through the T-cellular immunity.

[Risk factors for the development of siderosilicotubeculosis]. / Faktory riska razvitiia siderosilikotuberkuleza.

The main risk factors on siderosilicotuberculosis developing in conditions of modern ore mining industry are high tuberculosis infestation of miners and patients with siderosilicosis, presence of residual changes in the lungs of pneumoconiosis and unspecific character. Siderosilicotuberculosis is diagnosed, as a rule, in miners and patients with siderosilicosis at the age of 45 years with 15 year length of work in the mine.