[Bicarbonate calcium mineral water with carbon dioxide in rehabilitation of children with dismetabolic nephropathies complicated by renal inflammation]. / Uglekislaia gidrokarbonatnaia kal'tsievaia mineral'naia voda v reabilitatsii detei s dismetabolicheskimi nefropatiiami v sochetanii s vospalitel'nymi zabolevaniiami pochek.

A renal function was studied in children with dismetabolic nephropathy and renal inflammation before and after spa treatment with low-mineral water from the spring "Gornovodnoye". Drinking the water resulted in intensification of 24-h diuresis in increasing proportion of sodium and chlorine ions concentrations and decreasing proportion of calcium and magnesium ions concentrations. A membrane-stabilizing action of Gornovodnenskaya mineral water reduced oxaluria and uraturia. An effective scheme of balneotherapy is proposed.

[Hepatitis B infection and primary glomerulonephritis in children]. / HB-virusnaia infektsiia i pervichnyi glomerulonefrit u detei.

Out of 165 children presenting with renal pathology, HBV-infection was detected by RIA in 69.7% of children suffering from glomerulonephritis and in 30.8% of children with pyelonephritis. The infection manifested by the carriage of HBs-antigen and persistent hepatitis. Unlike the control group (without HBv-infection), in patients with HBv-infection, glomerulonephritis was characterized by the development of a prognostically unfavourable mixed form there of in children under 7 years, by rare cases of the onset of a complete remission consequent to immunosuppressive therapy, a decline of the level of serum IgG and the T lymphocyte count, a reduction of the helper/suppressor ratio to 1.21 at the expense of a decrease of the number of helpers, and a higher amount of lymphocytes expressing receptors to IL-2.