Objective: to evaluate the clinical efficacy and outcomes of kidney transplants performed using an alternative immunosuppressive therapy protocol that is based on double induction. Materials and methods. We examined 296 cases of kidney transplants performed in 295 patients between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2018. Based on induction immunosuppressive therapy regimen, the patients were divided into two groups. Group 1 included patients who underwent transplantation from January 1, 2004 to June 30, 2013 and who used the standard induction immunosuppression protocol. Group 2 included patients who did transplant surgeries between the period January 7, 2013 and December 31, 2018 and who received the “double” induction protocol being analyzed. The method of dividing patients into these groups is associated with routine implementation of the analyzed protocol at the transplantation center since July 1, 2013. Results. Graft and recipient survival rates at all follow-up periods were higher in the group of patients who received the “double” induction immunosuppressive protocol than in the standard group. The studied protocol provides initially better and more stable graft function than in standard therapy. This is especially valuable in centers experiencing difficulties in assessing pre-transplant immunological risk. The graft and recipient survival rates achieved by the analyzed protocol are more pronounced in deceaseddonor kidney transplantation. Conclusion. Positive results obtained from retrospective analysis of the protocol under study justify a prospective randomized study.

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96 patients with allergic rhinitis aged from 24 to 40 years were under our supervision at the Republican Center of Clinical Immunology. Patients (40 men and 56 women) were followed regularly for 5 years. The duration of the disease did not exceed 10 years. The diagnostic program aimed to establish the signs of "atopic phenotype" and specific hypersensitivity in patients with allergic rhinitis. It included an allergic history, skin testing, provocative nasal tests, test of inhibition of natural emigration of leukocytes (TTEL) with histamine, determination of the number of eosinophils in peripheral blood, assessment of humoral and cellular immunity, HL-typing.