METHOD FOR PREDICTING ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS IN CHILDREN Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC A61B10/00 G01N33/577 

FIELD: medicine, pediatrics, immunology.

SUBSTANCE: in patients' peripheral blood one should detect expression level of adhesion molecules of CD11β and CD54 lymphocytes due to indirect immunofluorescence technique at applying monoclonal antibodies and at the content of CD11β molecules being above 26.34% and CD54 molecules being above 33.26% one should detect active stage of acute pyelonephritis. The method is simple and of high information value. It enables to evaluate the values of leukocytic adhesion and their transendothelial migration quickly and objectively for 2.5 h after blood sampling, moreover, it is of high information value for proving the activity of microbial-inflammatory process in case of acute pyelonephritis and provides rational complex of therapeutic procedures in due time.

EFFECT: higher accuracy of diagnostics.

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