[Impact of antihypertensive therapy on clinical status and quality of life in patients with initial manifestations of hypertensive encephalopathy].

Aim: To study the clinical and instrumental characteristics of hypertensive encephalopathy (HE) in early stages, as well as the time course of their changes during long-term antihypertensive therapy (AHT).

Subjects And Methods: Prior to and after 9-month AHT, 57 patients aged 50-70 years who had uncomplicated grades 1-2 arterial hypertension (AH) with grades I-II HE underwent comprehensive examination comprising the studies of cognitive functions, quality of life (QL), hemorheology, and hemostasis, duplex scanning of great and intracerebral vessels, echocardiography, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring, magnetic resonance imaging.

Results: Early-stage HE was characterized by more cerebral complaints, higher rates of hypertensive crises, a greater degree of psychoautonomic syndrome, and worse QL.

[A state of hemorheological system in patients subjected to carotid endarterectomy with atherosclerotic lesion of the major cerebral arteries].

To study the influence of changes in the blood rheological indices and blood coagulation on development, progression and clinical course of restenosis and thrombosis, 62 patients (mean age 63.4 +/- 6.0 years), were followed up for 2-15 years after carotid endarterectomy.

[The follow up of patients with extracranial pathology of the carotid arteries and ischemic disorders of cerebral circulation].

According to the populational studies, about 50% of ischemic disorders of cerebral circulation, both persistent and transient, are induced by thrombotic or embolic complications of atherosclerotic plaques which produce an adverse effect on the large and small caliber arteries; about 20-25% is associated with lesion of the small diameter intracranial vessels, about 20% with embolism from the heart, and the remaining disorders fall within other rare causes. The prevalence of atherosclerotic lesions of the vessels feeding the brain, the severity of their clinical manifestations, insufficient efficacy of conservative therapy and the high risk of surgical treatment remain as before a matter of great medical and social concern. In connection with an appreciable progress of vascular surgery carotid endarterectoray (GEAE) as one of the radical approaches to correction of the pathology of the carotid artery segment is widespread at the large centers of vascular surgery of different countries.