Additional potentialities in the community-acquired pneumonia diagnostics
30 patients underwent the search of additional criteria of CAP diagnostics. The estimation of metabolic neutrophils' activity testifies to the fact that both formation of hydroxyl radicals by neutrophils and myeloperoxidase activity increase against the background of oxidative stress in organism. Ventilation-perfusion pulmonoscintigraphy revealed the increase of apical-basal gradient of ventilation and perfusion in the affected lung and double (in both the affected area and intact lung) acceleration of alveolar-capillary permeability for radioactive aerosol.