Terapevt Arkh
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The article for the first time provides a relatively comprehensive overview of the main aspects of the epidemiology and clinical features of infectious pathology, i.e., community-acquired pneumonia, as comorbid and aggravating conditions in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Risk factors and pathogenetic patterns of infectious processes development, as well as the special etiological role of pneumococcal infection in this group of patients, are considered. Particular attention is paid to the possibilities of and approaches to the primary prevention of vaccine-preventable infections as the causes of the development of community-acquired pneumonia and invasive diseases in patients with diabetes mellitus with a review of international studies, guidelines, and local experience data in pneumococcal infection immunization.
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This article presents the experience of successful use of the drug dupilumab in a patient with severe atopic dermatitis and bronchial asthma. The effectiveness of biological therapy with dupilumab 300 mg subcutaneously for 52 weeks of T-2 associated diseases, including a combination of severe atopic dermatitis and bronchial asthma, uncontrolled course based on the case history of patient Ts., born in 2006 with the diagnosis "Main: atopic dermatitis, common form, severe course. Concomitant diagnosis: bronchial asthma, persistent course, uncontrolled, moderate severity". ⋯ With bronchial asthma, a reduction in exacerbations, normalization of respiratory function indicators, complete control of the disease has been achieved. The targeted biological drug dupilumab has a targeted effect on the key links in the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis and bronchial asthma and reduces the burden of severe diseases. Therefore, the use of dupilumab in atopic dermatitis and bronchial asthma contributes to achieving disease control and improving the patient's quality of life.
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Nasal liquorrhea the outflow of cerebrospinal fluid from the cerebrospinal fluid spaces of the cranial cavity into the nasal cavity or paranasal sinuses due to the presence of a congenital or acquired defect in the bones of the skull base and meninges of various etiologies. Nasal liquorrhea leads to potentially fatal complications: meningitis, meningoencephalitis, pneumocephalus, brain abscess. Also, with nasal liquorrhea, less dangerous complications may occur: aspiration bronchopneumonia and gastritis. ⋯ The postoperative period in both cases was uneventful. In both cases, the patients underwent computer tomography scan of the chest organs one month later. On the photographs, the signs of pneumonia completely regressed.
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To identify predictors of development of small respiratory tract (SRT) dysfunction in patients with asthma of mild severity, partially controlled course. ⋯ It has been shown that the most significant factors affecting the occurrence of dysfunction of the SRT in patients with asthma of mild severity are the duration of asthma for more than 5 years, the presence of extrapulmonary allergic diseases in patients (allergic rhinitis and urticaria) and bronchial obstruction in patients.