First Russian Experience of Composite Facial Tissue Allotransplantation.

The facial allotransplantation technique was first introduced to the general public in 2005. The definition of the face as a complex system of organs that perform social functions made possible the adaptation of this operation into clinical practice. The year 2010 was the starting point for initial research in the Russian Federation.

[ZIKA FEVER: CLINICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, LABORATORY, AND DIAGNOSTIC ASPECTS].

The authors overview data on the prevalence of Zika fever with reference to biological properties of the causative agent, epidemiological process, pathogenesis, and clinical symptoms of the disease. Special attention is given to the identification of the virus in pregnant women, microcephaly in the babies born by Zika-infected women, algorithm of laboratory diagnostics, and measures needed to prevent and control mosquitoes that spread viruses.

[Prospective planning of activity of the Medical service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for 2016-2020].

The article reflects the characteristics of the Plan of activities of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation for 2016-2020--an important long-term planning document of the Armed Forces. It stressed the need for synchronization of activities for chain of command and deadline. Presented structure of the Medical Service Plan Military District operations (fleet) military medical organization.

[Stiffness of the arterial wall and predicted vascular age as a predictor of cardiovascular disease when stress-induced hypertension in the military personnel].

Stiffness of the arterial wall and predicted vascular age as a predictor of cardiovascular disease when stress-induced hypertension in the military personnel. On the basis of the study of 156 men aged 30-55 years are considered diagnostic methods for stress-induced hypertension in the military personnel. Furthermore, using modern diagnostic methods determined stress effect on the development of stress-induced hypertension, and also the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

[Zika virus infection: clinical and diagnostic aspects and organization of preventive measures].

The article presents modem data about Zika virus outbreak, the biological characteristics of the pathogen, vectors, the nature of the epidemic process, pathogenesis and diagnosis of infection. This infection has a high potential for epidemic spread because vectors are widely represented in the fauna of many climatic and geographic zones. It presents information on the main clinical manifestations of the disease.

[Medical support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: results of activity and tasks for 2016].

The author gives an analysis of activity of the medical service of the Armed Forces in 2015 concerning development of normative legal basis for the military health care, improvement of the level of operational and mobilization readiness of subunits of army group, and military-medical institutions, improvement of effectiveness of treatment and evacuation measures, health resort treatment, medical stuff training optimization, sanitary-and-epidemiologic support, material and technical support improvement, adoption of advanced scientific achievements focusing on medical care delivery to army group, active development and increase in medical information systems, telehealth. system. The author gives data characterizing state and level of development of medical service of the Armed Forces and its dynamics.

[Who was the head of the General Military Medical Department in 1917-1918].

The article describes the history of the central governing body of the Russian military medicine - the General Military Medical-Department (GMMD) - during the most difficult period of its history - 1917-1918. There is still no clear evidence about the head of GMMD of those times in historical literature. The authors tried to reconstruct the history of GMMD during the revolution, gave the list of chiefs in chronological order on the basis of primary documents of the central military archives.

[Organisation of medical care delivery to citizens, enjoying a right to get medical care at military-medical organisations of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation].

One of the main priorities of the medical service of the armed forces of the Russian federation is a realization of rights for military retirees and members of their families to free medical care. For this purpose was founded a system of organization of medical care delivery at military-medical subdivisions, units and organizations of the ministry of defence of the Russian federation, based on territorial principle of medical support. In order to improve availability and quality of medical care was determined the order of free medical care delivery to military servicemen and military retirees in medical organizations of state and municipal systems of the health care.

[Equipment of field units of the medical service of the Armed Forces with modern medical complexes on the basis of pneumo-frame modules, and procedure of the use].

Equipment of field units or ine meaical service of the Armed Forces with modem medical complexes on the basis of pneumo-frame modules, and procedure of the use. On the basis of experience of medical supply in local wars and modern armed conflicts, when liquidating medical and sanitary disaster consequences the authors revealed the main organizational problems in army echelon of the medical service. It is shown that these problems can be solved by means of deployment of medical units and subunits.

[Medical and technical means for united circle of evacuation measures in military-medical organisations of the Ministry of Defence].

Experts of the medical service of the Armed Forces carried out an analysis of capabilities of modern Russian enterprises and their innovative projects regarding creation of unified means of evacuation of wounded and providing to them necessary types of emergency care with the use of existing and future special and regular means of transport for medical evacuation. As a result of the work of industrial enterprises of the OAO Kazan "Vertoletniy Zavod", "Zarechie", "Vysota" was created a device for the medical evacuation of severe wounded patients. The device is designed for medical evacuation of severe wounded patients from the military medical unit to the site providing comprehensive medical care with maintenance of vital functions and monitoring of his condition.

[Medical support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: the results of the activities and the main tasks for 2015].

Presented the directions of activity of the medical service in the past year, including improving the legal framework, the optimization of medical management software, improving combat and mobilization readiness of units of the army, the optimization of therapeutic and preventive activities, implementation of innovative technologies, increasing mobility of units and subunits, their level of equipping with modern samples of property, training of qualified personnel, intensify research and etc. Analyzed and formulated directions of development of military medicine in 2015, including improvement of combat and mobilization readiness of the management body, military and medical organizations and departments, improving the legal framework of the military health care, holding among the troops interventions for the prevention morbidity of personnel by pneumonia and meningitis, work with commanders at all levels to ensure the preservation and strengthening of health of servicemen, improving of the system of early and active detection of diseases in the military, providing a guaranteed level of care to all contingent Ministry of Defense, improving the quality and accessibility of sanatorium treatment, maintaining constant readiness of medical special forces to carry out tasks for the purpose, improvement of professional training of personnel of the medical service, providing qualitative preparation of government medical service to participate in the training of troops, implementation of unexpected problems, equipping of army medical service with modern medical equipment finishing of the construction and renovation of military medical organizations facilities, improvement of social protection of personnel and many others.

[Ebola virus disease: clinical and diagnostic aspects and organization of treatment-and-prophylactic measures].

The article presents data about world spread of Ebola virus disease, biological characteristics of the pathogen, the laws of the epidemic process in this disease, its pathogenesis, clinical manifestations and diagnosis. Pointed out that the current anti-viral agents, effective for the Ebola virus, have not been developed. Timely performed pathogenetic therapy improves the prognosis of the disease.

[EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER: DIAGNOSTICS, ETIOTROPIC AND PATHOGENETIC THERAPY, PREVENTION].

The data on diagnostics, etiotropic and pathogenetic therapy, prevention of Ebola hemorrhagic fever are presented including diagnostic algorithms for different clinical situations. Fundamentals of pathogenetic therapy are described. Various groups of medications used for antiviral therapy of conditions caused by Ebola virus are characterized.

[Medical rehabilitation in the Armed Forces: history, current state and prospects].

Authors analyzed history, current state and prospects of medical rehabilitation in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Current system of medical rehabilitation in the Armed Forces provides all categories of military personnel and members of their families complete rehabilitative and remedial measures. An integration of rehabilitative experience of the medical service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation into the State system of medical rehabilitation, active participation of the medical service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in activity of National association of specialists of medical rehabilitation and regenerative medicine will allow to increase the effectiveness of the rehabilitation system of the Armed Forces.

[Psychology and psychopathology of information warfare].

Tension of information warfare as a form of modern war has a global character nowadays. Topicality of research of psychological reaction peculiarities and psychopathology phenomena developing during information warfare is determined by necessity of scientific development of the effective means of diagnosis and prophylaxis of these phenomena. The article is devoted to analytical review of modern articles about aim, goals and methods of information warfare, covering some signs of manipulative influence on people's mind.

[The experience in organizing the medical support of allied convoys during the Great Patriotic War on the northern maritime theater].

The medical support of allied convoys during the Great Patriotic War had a number of features. The Intensity of power of the fighting, the meteorological conditions, the composition of convoy's forces, the kind of enemy's weapon - had a significant impact on the structure of losses in personnel. The main type of medical care on the ships of 2-3rd rank was predoctor care.

[Prophylaxis of substance abuse in the Armed Forces: organization and performance of screening. Problem of substance dependence disorders is the actual for many countries in the world and affects on health of servicemen].

Due to this fact specialists underline the necessity of implementation of constant drug testing system of servicemen. The most effective researches individuals suffering from substance abuse are sample and control survey. Promising areas of prevention of addictive disease include the use of modem technologies for early detection of drug narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, using the psychophysiological and laboratory techniques.

[Hi-tech health care: modern status and prospects of development in medical facilities of the Ministry of Defence].

The article is devoted to the current issues of providing hi-tech medical care in hospitals of the Ministry of Defence. Since the beginning of 2013 the executive body of the Russian Ministry of Defense pays special attention to improvement of the quality and accessibility of health care contingent of the Ministry of Defence. Thus, according to decision of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu in 2013 more than 1.

[The Russian Armed Forces Military Medical Service: condition and ways of improvement].

In 2013 the main efforts of the Medical Service were aimed at the following tasks: optimization of management system of military medical service, improvement of medical evacuation system, medical service security for military contingents, assigned according to territory principle to military-medical facilities of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, implementation of innovations at all stages of medical evacuation in peace- and wartime, security of combat and mobilization readiness of regulatory bodies of the Medical Service, medical military units and military medical facilities, medical service of troops battle training, improvement of material and technical resources, security of regular pharmacy and equipment supply, activation of research work in the Medical Service interests. Lines of military medicine development in 2014 are: transfer of treatment facilities that are not used by the Ministry of Defence into the Federal Biomedical Agency till the end of 2014, prevention of pneumonia and meningitis in military personnel, improvement of early diagnosis system, medical service for military contingents according to territory principle, improvement of diagnostic and treatment work in military-medical units and subunits and military-medical facilities by means of development of material and technical resources, monitor the implementation of innovative diagnostic and treatment technologies, completion of construction projects of central military hospitals and etc.

[Experience of medical support organization of the tank biathlon competition].

Authors presented information about medical support of the tank biathlon competition taking part on 12-17 August 2013 at the Alabino. Crews from Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia (The Collective Security Treaty Organization) were invited for the contest. On the basis of the idea of the contest and location of the Alabino, the Main military-medical board of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation developed and passed the Programme of medical support of the contest, gave the word to medical service of the Western Military District and central military-medical facilities about appropriation of funds.

[About development of All-Russian Service for Disaster Medicine at the present stage].

The information about foundation, development and main areas of activity of All-Russian Service for Disaster Medicine is given. Almost 20 years professional staff members help to save lives and health of people injured in emergency situations in Russia and other countries. There are 81 territorial centers for disaster medicine.

[Evaluation of myocardial perfusion by single-photon emission CT in the treatment with beta-adrenoblockers and calcium channel blockers].

Single-photon emission CT of the heart was used to observe coronary blood flow and reveal the maximum perfusion region in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) treated with beta-adrenoblockers and calcium channel blockers. Dynamic observation showed changes and redistribution of myocardial perfusion. Specific features of coronary blood flow were demonstrated depending on the therapeutic modality (beta-blocker metoprolol, calcium channel blocker amlodipine).

[The cytoprotective role of endogenous heat shock proteins during the treatment of patients with acute coronary syndrome].

The study involving 48 patients with the preliminary diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome aged 54-78 years included analysis of clinical, laboratory and instrumental data for subgroups with different definitive diagnosis (myocardial infarction and unstable angina in 28 and 22 patients respectively). On the whole, the mean content of HSP-70 at admission averaged 2.1 ± 0.

[Methods of substance abuse prevention in the Armed Forces].

Dynamics of substance abuse morbidity in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the last 10 years (2002-2012) was analyzed. Results of performed analysis showed decreasing tendency since 2007 in conscripts (0.07% in 2012) and in contract soldiers (0.

[Improvement of the system of medico-evacuational interventions in the troops with the help of mobile specialized elements].

Taking into account the historical experience the authors considered the main principles of improvement of the system of preventive and curative interventions in the troops with the help of mobile functional elements. The authors suggested to develop medical reinforcement groups which satisfy requirements of high mobility and self-contained operations. 3 types of functional elements must be developed: 17 specialized doctor-nurse teams of the central military--treatment facilities, 10 doctor-nurse teams of district military (navy) clinical hospitals, 11 doctor-nurse teams of branches of district military hospitals.