Comprehensive study of the immune status of the body
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At present, clinical immunology has become a link between a number of medical disciplines. Its main tasks include diagnostics, prognosis and development of methods of treatment of human diseases, accompanied by various defects in the immune system. Changes in the immune system in diseases should be considered not in isolation, but in combination with other important systems of vital activity of the body. Complex assessment of the state of various parts of the immune system should take into account both quantitative and qualitative changes in immunity indices. Methods of clinical immunology allow us to solve the following problems.
- Identify the defect of one or another link of the immune system (congenital and acquired immunodeficiencies).
- Diagnose autoaggression against normal body components (autoimmune diseases) and excessive accumulation of immune complexes (diseases of immune complexes).
- Identify dysfunctions in which signs of hyperfunction develop in one or another link of immunity to the detriment of the functioning of other links (hypergammaglobulinemia, heavy chain disease, myeloma, etc.).
- Monitor the effectiveness of immunosuppressive or immunostimulatory therapy.
- Carry out typing and selection of donors during organ transplantation and control of immunosuppressive therapy during transplantation.
- Conduct phenotyping of hemoblastoses.
- Diagnose the genetic predisposition to somatic diseases.
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