[Comparative analysis of evaluating criteria for lumbar discectomy success rate].

Purpose: The study was conducted to analyze different criteria for lumbar discectomy success rate.

Material And Methods: 493 patients were evaluated by five-component visual-analogue pain scale, Oswestry index, ability to perform normal daily activity and work, satisfaction with surgery results and Watkins scale.

Results: Good and excellent results of surgery correspond with good functional outcome.

[Five-component visual analogue scale for assessement of pain status retrospective analysis of outcomes after surgical treatment of degenerative spine disease].

The study was performed for development of more precise criteria for assessment of pain using five-component visual analogue scale. Pain status was studied in 493 patients who underwent lumbar spinal nerve root decompression. Pain scale included the following parameters: pain at the moment, usual pain, maximal pain, minimal pain and overall pain score which was calculated as an average quantity of the previous four parameters.

[The features of the brain immune system in brain neoplasms].

Examining responses of the local immune system of the brain in neurocancer patients suggests that the immune system is involved in the neuroimmune interaction of both physiological and pathological conditions in the central nervous system (CNS). The setting off the local immune system of the brain is of functional nature, similar to functional analogy with the local system of the mucosae. By functional analogy, the aggregate of immune responses in the nervous tissue and cerebrospinal fluid should be called local and the system that includes these responses should named the local immune system of the brain.

[Cerebrospinal fluid sorption in the system of complex treatment of chronic cerebral ischemia].

The cerebrospinal fluid was investigated in 16 patients with chronic cerebral ischemia. Reactions of the local immune system of the liquor was shown to change by the autoimmune type. Medical efficiency of cerebrospinal fluid sorption was proved and it can be considered a method of detoxication aimed at breaking the pathogenetic chain: formation of abundance of the autoantibodies--increased amount of the circulating immunocomplexes--damage of the cell membranes--discharge of deep antigens--appearance of a new generation of autoantibodies.

[Cellular immune reactions in the victims of explosive injuries to the skull and brain].

Specific features in the immunological status of 49 wounded with explosion injuries of neurosurgical profile are as follows: in light injuries--it is hyperergic character of the immune system and its inadequacy to the injuries of a middle degree it is a distinct parallelism between the dynamics of the immune status indices and the functional state of the CNS depending on the severity of the injury-an extremely flabby with the inhibiting of main immunological indices at a low but permanent level.