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Abstract:
A total of 168 patients were examined presenting with different clinical and roentgenological forms of acute pneumonia, such as focal one with an acute course, focal protracted, croupous with an acute course, croupous protracted, abscessing ones. Blood serum elastinase-like activity was studied. The complicated forms of pneumonia were found to be accompanied by two-phase dynamics of elastinase-like activity, such that it soars by day 10-15 of the disease process and declines by day 20-15, unlike the prognostically favourable forms of the condition where the initial reduction of this parameter turns to its gradual normalization.
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