Vol XXXI, No 1-4 (1999)

The root cause of osteochondrosis is the defeat of a small pulp within the vertebral segment. The clinical significance of the pathology initiated by this education is very great. The complex knot of this discrepancy was unleashed by individual radiologists, who limited this supposedly local process to its morphological framework. However, broad-minded specialists in radiological diagnostics have long risen above this localizationism and assessed not only the X-ray morphological, but also the clinical, especially neurological, aspects of the problem.

By method of questionnaire enfluence of clinical and biological factors on cerebrovascular diseases formation among population of Uljanovsk has been studied. More frequently cerebrovascular diseases developed in people, aged over 40 years old (77,2%). Males fell ill in 1,5 times more often than femalles. The most common etiologic factors of cerebrovascular diseases development were hypertonic disease and cerebral atherosclerosis, combined with hypertonic disease (29,5% and 26,2% respectively). The obtained results should be taken into account when planning and organizing treatment and prophylaxis system of CVD.

In this work diagnostic errors of subarachnoid haemorrhage have bun analyzed; the latter being caused by rupture of brain sacculated aneurysms. False diagnoses have been enumerated. Necessity of early hospitalizathion to neurology hospital of patients with signs of subarachnoid haemorrhage has been explained.

Personality characteristics in 64 patients with vegetative disfunction syndrome, associated with one of genetic marker — Na+/Li+ countertransport velocity in erythrocyte membrane have been studied. It was established that emotional and personal disorders are more manifested in persons with vegetative crises, belonging to the III rd quartile. It can be supposed that a level of transmembrane ionotransport has a significance in formation of a pathologic psychovegetative pattern, including personal peculiarities, which do form a clinical picture phenotype.

State of initial vegetative tonus in 68 children of age from 7 to 13 with congenital heart diseases (of acyanotic type) was studied by mathematical analysis method of cardiac rhythm variability at pre-operation and post-operation periods. It was established, that in patients with congenital heart diseases dynamics peculiarities of vegetative nervous system’s state depend on operation’s conditions and character of initial vegetative tonus in pre-operation period. It was determined, that most unfavourable days with great variation of vegetative characteristics are the 1st, 2 nd and also the 5 th and the 6 th days. The above said should determine therapy tactics with taking into account vegetative regulation.

In Germany, a cerebral stroke affects 2 out of 1000 inhabitants per year, which corresponds to 160 thousand strokes per year, according to other sources - up to 250 thousand. Currently, significant progress has been achieved in the treatment of acute strokes. The mortality rate for strokes in the early stages of the disease, which previously exceeded 50%, has significantly decreased.

Body temperature reflects the state of homeostasis, the intensity of bioenergetic processes and the thermal state of the human body as a whole. In the physical sense, body temperature is a measure of the amount of thermal energy in the body, determines the rate of chemical reactions, affecting all biological functions of the body.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common non-traumatic cause of disability in young and middle-aged people, which determines the attention of health authorities and social welfare agencies in any society. Despite high hopes for new treatments, curing MS patients in the foreseeable future is highly problematic.

In recent years, dissection of the external cranial sections of the carotid and vertebral arteries has been of great importance in studies of the causes of stroke. Initially, after the appearance of the first description (Jentzer, 1954) of dissection, it was mentioned only in connection with the characteristics of severe neurological deficits.

And myotrophic lateral sclerosis (ABS) is a rapidly progressive degenerative disease of the motor nervous system, so patients with this diagnosis need intensive monitoring and treatment.

April 25, 1999 marks the 60th anniversary of his birth and 37 years of medical, scientific, pedagogical and public activity of the Doctor of Medical Sciences, a member of European associations for medical radiology and spinal pathology, head of the Department of Radiation Diagnostics and Radiation Therapy of Kazan State Medical University, Professor Ildar Iskhakovich Kamalova.

Studies of the pathophysiological mechanisms of the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have shown that it is a heterogeneous disease involving genetic and environmental factors. Therefore, it is rather difficult to find the single most informative and pathognomonic test for diagnosis.

A number of authors point to a positive protective effect of the use of moderate doses of alcohol in cardiovascular diseases. Similar studies in ischemic stroke are of interest.