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Scrapings off the inferior conjunctival plica were studied in 15 patients with Sjogren's disease and 15 ones with Sjogren's syndrome. The cytology of the conjunctiva in patients with Sjogren's disease or syndrome reliably differed from that in normal subjects. Irrespective of the form and stage of the underlying disease, changes in the conjunctival epithelium of patients with dry kerato-conjunctivitis reflected the processes of squamous-cell metaplasia with loss of goblet cells. Five variants of the cytologic picture of involved conjunctival epithelium are distinguished. The authors come to a conclusion about the efficacy of cytologic studies in a complex of examinations of patients with Sjogren's disease and syndrome.

Levels of T and B lymphocytes have been assessed in 117 patients with probable loss of pregnancy during its various terms. The results compared with those obtained from 47 females with normally advancing pregnancies and 25 healthy nonpregnant women demonstrate that during the normal pregnancy, the number of T and B lymphocytes tends to decrease while that of lymphocytes is increasing. The signs of pregnancy interruption, particularly pronounced in threatened premature labor are found to be followed with a pronounced activation of the immunity T-system.