[Criteria for the active inflammatory process in patients with infectious-allergic bronchial asthma]

A total of 114 patients with infections-allergic bronchial asthma were studied, being subdivided into two groups. The first group covers 53 patients without clinical, immunologic, X-ray, enzymatic and biochemical sings of active inflammation. The second group includes 61 patients with manifested bronchial-pulmonary inflammation. Immunoglobulins of classes IgA, IgM, and IgG, complement enzymatic activity of total acid phosphatase were studied as well as sorbitoldehydrogenase and "acute phase" proteins. The values of immunoglobulin classes IgA and IgG, coplement, enzymatic activity of total acid phosphatase and sorbitodechydrogenase and "acute phase" proteins were established to be with regularly increased values with high statistical significance. Those indices could serve the differentiation and making the diagnosis of acute and exacerbated pulmonary inflammation as well as for prescribing the adequate antiinflammatory treatment of the patients with infectious-allergic bronchial asthma.