[Subdural hematomas in infants and children of early age].

The article focuses on clinical presentation, pathophysiology and course of infantile subdural hematomas. Diagnostic procedures and surgical technique are described. Authors demonstrated results of minimally invasive surgical treatment of infantile subdural hematomas.

[The clinical and epidemiological characteristics of acute brain injury in children of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria].

The paper provides the data of an epidemiological survey for acute brain injury in the pediatric population in Nalchik (Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria) during 3 years (1991-1993). The incidence of acute brain injury was 4.32 +/- 0.

[The role of biochemical processes in the pathogenesis of complicated hydrocephalus in children].

Spinal fluid radical formation levels, malonic dialdehyde concentrations, and intrinsic antioxidative activity were studied in 84 patients with hydrocephalus. The findings suggest that there is a considerable activation of free radical reactions and lipid peroxidation, as well as a reduction in antioxidative activity. These changes were most drastically profound in children with inflammation-complicated hydrocephalus with spinal fluid hemorrhagic changes in particular.

[The effect of selective dorsal rhizotomy on motor function in patients with infantile cerebral palsy].

The authors analyze the outcomes of surgical treatment in 15 CP patients with lower paraparesis who had been treated with selective dorsal rhizotomy at the L2-S2 level. All the patients were examined by neurological study, EMG, EEG, visual evoked potential (VEP) recording and motor reaction time estimation. Based on the findings, it is suggested that SPR lumbosacral spinal level may affect cerebral function.

[Study of free radical oxidation of lipids in cerebrospinal fluid of hydrocephalic children].

The levels of free radical production, malondialdehyde concentration and antioxidant activity were estimated in ventricular liquor of the infants with primary hydrocephalus. It was shown that even in the case of uncomplicated hydrocephalus significant disorders in brain metabolism took place. In the patients with inflammatory or hemorrhagic complications the levels of malondialdehyde and free radicals were markedly increased as compared to the infants with "pure" hydrocephalus.