METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH MYELOMA

摘要

FIELD: medicine.SUBSTANCE: patient's blood serum is analysed to measure the cytokine content - tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), interleukin-2 (IL-2) and interleukin-4 (IL-4). If TNF-alpha is more than 0.5 pg/ml, IL-2 is more than 10 pg/ml and IL-4 is less than 0.55 pg/ml, infectious complications are predicted in the patients with myeloma.EFFECT: using the given method enables diagnosing the disease progression, onset of complications in due time, correcting a therapeutic setting and approach to the presented category of patients.2 ex