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  • Title: [Disordered immunologic reactivity in patients with chronic calculous cholecystitis].
    Author: Koval'chuk LA, Venger IK, Piatnochka VI.
    Journal: Klin Khir (1962); 1989; (9):6-7. PubMed ID: 2593528.
    Abstract:
    In patients with chronic calculous cholecystitis, the number of T-lymphocytes decreased, the number of B-lymphocytes and their ability to transform into the blasts in response to stimulation of the specific bacterial antigen increased, the synthesis of immunoglobulins intensified, a titre of the antibodies specific to microflora of the biliary mucosa grew, the levels of complement, lysozyme and properdin decreased, the bacterial activity of blood serum was suppressed. It is necessary to correct these disorders in the process of preoperative preparation of the patients.
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