Results of using Spine Assist Mazor in surgical treatment of spine disorders.

In this paper, we describe the possibility of using a bone-mounted miniature robot based on the experience of different surgeries performed in 77 patients divided into four groups according to the general pathology (degenerative stenosis of the vertebral canal, fractures of vertebral bodies, spondylolisthesis, hemangiomas, and tumors). All the patients underwent surgical intervention using Spine Assist Mazor, such as stabilization using the Go-Lif system, transpedicular systems, vertebroplasty, and vertebral body biopsy. The new method and the technology of stabilizing surgeries using Spine Assist Mazor allow one to perform preoperative virtual planning based on CT images and to identify an ideal and safe trajectory of placing screws or needles for vertebroplasty or biopsy.

[The effect of osteochin on the dynamics of the course of the myodystrophic process].

Osteochin (Quinoin, Hungary) efficacy was studied in the treatment of 20 patients with Duchenne's progressive myodystrophy. The drug was administered in a dose of 200 mg a day for a month. A favorable effect of such therapy was observed in all the patients.

[Humidifier fever].

Pollution of air ventilation and conditioning systems by microorganisms and products of their activity can lead to the development of infectious (legionnaires' disease) and allergic (humidifier fever) diseases. Clinical, immunological and hygienic investigations under natural conditions of 72 persons working in offices helped to study a respiratory disease which was similar to humidifier fever. The removal of dust and mud from the system and thorough cleaning of all conditioned rooms put an end to this disease.

[The differential diagnosis of severe poisoning using electroencephalographic findings].

The author conducted a clinical and EEG study of 308 patients with severe acute poisoning (by barbiturates, phosphororganic compounds, ethyl alcohol, noxiron, elenium, narcotics, carbon monoxide, tubazide, ethylenglycole and dichlorethan). It is shown that EEG changes in combination with clinical and toxicological data permit to qualify more precisely the form of poisoning and conduct specific therapy.

[A clinico-electroencephalographic study of acute noxiron poisoning].

The study is concerned with results of a clinical and EEG examination of 28 patients with acute poisoning by noxiron. All these were seen in a Republican Centre for the Treatment of Acute Poisoning. Three groups of patients with certain clinical and EEG features were distinguished which permitted to assess more precisely the state of the patient.