[Value of studying chemiluminescence of blood plasma in the diagnosis of acute suppurative destructive pneumonia in children].

Biophysical studies of the patients' blood plasma have demonstrated that the infiltrative form of acute pneumonia is characterized by appreciable enhancement of fluorescence, the destructive form by its dramatic depression. This rapid method is fairly informative, safe for the patient; it allows the determination of the dynamics of inflammatory and destructive processes that occur in the lungs and the monitoring of the treatment efficacy.