[Efficiency of combined resort rehabilitation of patients with cerebral stroke under the conditions of a medium-altitude region].

A comparative study of the effectiveness of the early rehabilitative treatment of post-stroke patients in a specialized hospital located in a medium-altitude mountainous area and in an outpatient clinic in the city of Bishkek (low altitude) was carried out. A more noticeable positive dynamics of the disturbed motor function and quality of life was documented in the patients treated in the mid-altitude in-patient hospital.

[Risk factors for subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy].

Subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy (SAE) is a chronic progressive form of brain blood supply deficiency. Risk factors for SAE development were studied in 65 patients (42 men and 23 women, mean age 60.5 +/- 7.

[Histocompatibility antigens in retrobulbar neuritis and multiple sclerosis].

HLA antigens were studied in 121 patients with dissemination sclerosis and 50 patients with retrobulbar neuritis. In both diseases the rate of antigen B7 distribution was increased and that of antigens B17, B40 decreased. The data suggest that both diseases have common pathogenic links.