Assessment of the functional status of the ciliary apparatus of the respiratory pathways during pathology of the respiratory organs

: Using a television system, the function of the ciliary system of the bronchial ciliated epithelium in patients with acute pneumonia, chronic and acute bronchitis and in healthy subjects was studied. Diagnostic signs of the ciliary dysfunction in respiratory pathology were defined, i.e. lower ciliary rate, their shorter amplitude, local and general dysmetachronia, etc. The influence of temperature and medium pH changes on the ciliated epithelium's motor activity in normal and pathologic cases was analysed.