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R N Korotkina

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[Hemostasis system disturbances and their correction in patients with pyonecrotic forms of diabetic foot].

Severe hypercoagulation syndrome was diagnosed in patients with various forms of diabetic foot. Pathology at coagulogram parameters reflects systemic metabolic and inflammatory disturbances. Anticoagulant therapy should be combined with correction of glycemia, treatment of infection and critical ischemia. Only this complex therapy can normalize coagulation parameters and reduce the risk of thrombotic complications.

Blood Coagulation Disorders↗

Study of total lipid peroxidation and antioxidant activity in pulmonary and mediastinal malignant and benign tumor tissue.

Total lipid peroxidation and antioxidant activity were studied in pulmonary and mediastinal malignant and benign neoplasms. In malignant tumors total lipid peroxidation increased and antioxidant activity decreased; the intensity of these shifts depended on histological characteristics and degree of malignancy: the most pronounced changes were observed in thymoma and adenocarcinoma tissues and minimum changes were found in bronchoalveolar carcinoma tissue.

Adenocarcinoma↗

[Pathogenesis and combined surgical treatment of the pyonecrotic diabetic foot].

Three hundred and fifteen patients with necrotic forms of diabetic foot were examined and treated. Neuropathic infected form of diabetic foot was diagnosed in 45.7% patients, neuro-ischemic form--in 54.3%. Mixed aerobic-anaerobic infection in foot's necrotic focus was detected in 87.6% diabetic patients, only aerobic--in 12.4%. High level of intoxication was seen in these patients. Algorithm of complex surgical treatment of different forms of diabetic foot is presented.

Bacterial Infections↗

Activity of glutathione-metabolizing and antioxidant enzymes in malignant and benign tumors of human lungs.

We measured the content of glutathione and activity of glutathione-metabolizing and antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase and catalase in samples obtained from 52 patients with malignant lung tumors and 20 patients with benign lung tumors. The content of glutathione and activity of glutathione-metabolizing enzymes underwent similar changes, but these changes were most pronounced in malignant tumors. Antioxidant enzyme activity changed insignificantly in benign tumors, but significantly decreased in malignant tumors (squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma). The severity of changes in malignant tumors depended on the degree of malignancy. Most pronounced changes were observed in adenocarcinoma, which often metastasizes and is resistant to chemotherapy. These changes were least pronounced in bronchoalveolar carcinoma sensitive to chemotherapy.

Adult↗

[Hypothermal perfusion: protection or damage?].

Ninety six patients were examined during operations on the open heart and great vessels: 25 perfusions were performed at a temperature of 30-32 degrees C; 41 perfusions at 26-29 degrees C; 10 at 23-26 degrees C; 20 at 12-14 degrees C. It was found that with superficial hypothermia and moderate PaO2, blood myoglobin (MG) release was minimal and the count and activity of platelets were optimal. The degree of myoglobinemia increased as PaO2 rose. As the body's temperature lowered, the blood concentrations of MG, its differences smoothed in the subgroups with different PaO2 values. Critical myoglobinemia (over 30 times higher than the baseline values) was noted in a group with superdeep cooling to a temperature of 14 degrees C. By taking into account the fact that the myocardium contains large quantities of MG, loss of this heme-containing protein involves myocardial blood supply disorders and hence decreased myocardial contractility. A considerable platelet loss entails higher postoperative hemorrhagic diathesis and requires efforts in correcting coagulopathies.

Body Temperature↗

Platelet monoamine oxidase activity during surgical intervention under condition of hypothermic perfusion.

Platelet and plasma monoamine oxidase activity was determined at early stages of hypothermic perfusion and circulatory arrest. Monoamine oxidase activity decreased more drastically and restored more slowly against the background of deep (14 degrees C) compared to moderate hypothermia (26-29 degrees C). The decrease in platelet monoamine oxidase activity was accompanied by its increase in the plasma, which attests to mechanical (in tubes) and toxic damage to platelets. The latter is associated with increased partial O(2) pressure in the plasma during hypothermia, which promotes the formation of reactive oxygen species.

Adult↗

In vitro effects of folic acid on gamma-glutamyltransferase and glutathione reductase activities in malignant lung and thymus tumors.

In vitro effects of folic acid (10(-5), 10(-4), and 10(-3)M) on activities of gamma-glutamyltransferase and glutathione reductase, the enzymes involved in glutathione metabolism, were studied in tissue samples obtained after surgical treatment of the lungs and thymus. Folic acid did not change gamma-glutamyltransferase activity in lung cancer tissue, but in thymoma tissue this substance in a concentration of 10(-3)M inhibited it by 16%. Folic acid had no effects on glutathione reductase activity in benign tumors and normal lung and thymus tissues, but increased this activity in thymoma and lung cancer tissues. Activation of glutathione reductase was probably related to binding of folic acid in the allosteric center of the enzyme, which probably induced conformational changes in the catalytic center, acceleration of electron transport from NADPH(2) to oxidized glutathione via flavin adenine nucleotide, and intense production of reduced glutathione.

Dose-Response Relationship, Drug↗

[Substantiation and varieties of complex surgical treatment tactics for pyo-necrotic forms of diabetic foot].

For the period from 1996 to 1998 in the Division of wounds and wound infection of A.V. Vishnevsky Institute of Surgery 92 patients with pyonecrotic forms of "diabetic foot" underwent thorough examination and treatment. The patients were divided into groups by the form of "diabetic foot": with pyonecrotic forms of "diabetic foot" without critical ischemia (group 1) and with it (group 2). In 18 patients of both groups the data of electron autoradiography were used to reveal peculiarities of the wound process. Group 1 patients had at admittance a large number of neutrophiles in various stages of destruction in biopsies of the wound. In patients of group 2 a great majority of the vessels in biopsies of the wound were in different stages of destruction with lost connections between their separate cells or some of their part absent. Separate cells (endotheliocytes and pericytes) which make up the walls of destroying vessels, were synthesizing RNA and were functionally active. In both groups, the studied parts of the wound before plastic repair of its defect usually represented as well developed granulation tissues with a number of microvessels and cells. Intensive synthesis of PNA in the cells of microvascular wall evidenced of their high functional activity, and the synthesis of DNA in them showed their ability for proliferation, i.g.--for growth. Thus, microangiopathy was reversible, and the solution of the problem of critical ischemia should be considered in the light of macroangiopathy. Thus, in patients of group 1 the cause of pyonecrotic damage consists in infection process, while in patients of group 2--in combination of infection with ischemia of the extremity. In both groups pyonecrotic disease of the extremity ruses at the background of severe disturbances of cellular immunity.

Diabetic Foot↗

[Molecular mechanisms of antioxidant action of dalargin on the liver in experimental cholestasis].

Changes of antioxidant activity of dalargin in the liver after naloxone (100 micrograms/kg) administration were examined in experiment on 144 rats with cholestasis. It was found that dalargin inhibited the activity of xanthine oxidase by 32-37% in different time periods after the injection. Dalargin and naloxone, when used in combination, had no effect on the enzyme activity. Glutathione-S-transferase activity rose by 38.0% and 21.8% on hour 1 and 3 after the injection, respectively, while simultaneous injection of dalargin and naloxone induced no changes in the enzyme activity after 1 hour, though decreased it by 36.8% and 26.4% on hour 3 and 5, respectively. Dalargin inhibited lipid peroxidation by 29-35%, simultaneous injection of dalargin and naloxone raised lipid peroxidation by 109.2%, 80.7% and 25.7% after 1, 3 and 5 hours, respectively. Dalargin injection elucidated a marked tendency to lowering of blood release of the liver-specific enzymes histidase and urokaninase in line with enhancement of their activity in the liver. A combined injection of dalargin and naloxone promoted high release of histidase and urokaninase in blood and did not change histidase activity in the liver in all cases. Urokanidase activity elevated in 5 hours. It was noticed that dalargin raised leu-enkephalin levels in the liver 3.5-fold 1 h after the injection. The reduced dalargin antioxidant effect coupled with naloxone pretreatment demonstrated indirect action of the neuropeptide on the liver via neuron receptors of the liver.

Animals↗

[Glutathione levels and the activity of the enzymes of glutathione metabolism in erythrocytes of patients with acute cholecystitis].

It is shown that in acute cholecystitis patients versus chronic cholecystitis ones and donors, the total glutathione in blood is lower while the activity of glutathione metabolism enzymes in red blood cells inhibited. Enzymological findings correlate with clinical symptoms of intoxication. Surgery aggravates disturbed activity of the enzymes. Conventional conservative therapy is not effective in normalizing the enzymes activity either. A good therapeutic response can be achieved by a directed transport of antibiotics in autologous blood ghosts which promotes recovery of normal activity of glutathione metabolism enzymes, routine glutathione level, early stabilization of hepatocytic membranes beneficial for surgical patients.

Acute Disease↗

[Effects of dalargin on some parameters of peroxidation of liver lipids in experimental animals].

The cholestasis and pancreatitis model was studied experimentally in 144 white rats. The influence of intraperitoneal injections of dalargin on the level of lipid peroxidation and on xanthine oxidase activity of the liver tissues in periods of 1, 3 and 5 hours was investigated. During that period the activity of hepato-specific enzymes in the liver tissues and serum were investigated. The reduction of xanthine oxidase activity in all the periods after injection of dalargin was discovered, the level of malonic dialdehyde was reduced by 43.8% 3 hours later. Simultaneously, the increase of the level of histidase in liver tissues was discovered (on 104.3% and 56.3% after 3 and 5 hours accordingly) and later the tendency to decrease the activity in serum was observed.

Animals↗

[Study of xanthine oxidase activity in the brain tissue after administration of dalargin during myoplegia].

Effect of Dalargin (40 micrograms/kg) on xanthine-oxidase (X) activity in experimental Arduan-induced myoplegia (0.1 mg/kg) was studied in the brain tissue of 70 rats under inhalation anesthesia and artificial ventilation. Neither Dalargin nor Arduan was found separately to induce statistically significant changes in X activity. Dalargin injections in myoplegia caused significant (24.7%) reduction of the enzyme's activity.

Androstane-3,17-diol↗

[Use of dalargin in complex anesthesiological protection during operations on the abdominal organs].

The authors analyse experience in the use of the synthetic analogue of ++leu enkephalin dalargin in multicomponent balanced anesthesia in operations on the abdominal organs in 36 patients. With the use of the suggested method the intraoperative expenditure of narcotic analgesics is 6 times less but the efficacy of the anesthesia remains the same. Study of the activity of the liver-specific enzymes (histidase and urokinase) in blood plasma and biopsy material taken from the liver and the content of malonic dialdehyde in the hepatic biopsy specimen revealed hepatoprotective properties of dalargin. The decrease of the total peripheral resistance and increase of the elasticity of the arterial reservoir++ in the main group as compared to these values in patients treated by the traditional method were considered by the authors to be the consequence of the autonomic priming effect of the opiopeptide used. It is concluded that the use of synthetic analogues of endogenous opioids (dalargin) in the anesthesiological protection complex in operations on the abdominal organs is expedient.

Adult↗

[Effects of several regulatory peptides on the functional activity of the pancreas in acute experimental pancreatitis].

The influence of regulatory peptides (somatostatin, calcitonin, and dalargin) on xanthine oxidase activity and lipid peroxidation level in pancreatic tissues as well as on the release of pancreatic enzymes (alpha-amylase, trypsin, lipase, and transamidinase) into blood was studied in 205 rats with experimental acute pancreatitis. Somatostatin and dalargin were shown to have obvious antioxidant effect seen by reduced xanthine oxidase activity and MDA level. All studied peptides stimulate reduced release of pancreatic enzymes. Particularly, reduction of dalargin and somatostatin is caused by inhibition of their synthesis as well as by pancreas protective effect of the peptides. Release of enzymes reduced by calcitonin is probably associated only with inhibition of secretory activity of the pancreas.

Acute Disease↗

[Dalargin in the prevention of acute postoperative pancreatitis].

In the experiment on 200 rats with acute pancreatitis, it was revealed that in administration of dalargin at a dose of 10 mg/kg of the mass, the activity of xanthinoxidase and lipid peroxidation in the pancreas was suppressed, at the same time, the activity of trypsin, amylase and transamidinase in the blood serum decreased. In 48 patients, who underwent the intravenous administration of dalargin at a dose of 50 mg/kg at operation on the pancreas and after it, the incidence of acute postoperative pancreatitis development decreased 4.16-fold when compared to the use of protease inhibitors, and 2.4-fold when compared to the use of fluorouracil.

Acute Disease↗