[Features of the internal picture of the disease among psoriasis and neurodermatitis patients].

Using experimental-psychological methods, the characteristics of the disease awareness were studied in 25 patients with psoriasis and neurodermatitis. The structure of the disease awareness was found to be strongly dependent on the degree of the cosmetic defect: in patients with a marked defect, the emotional and motivational levels occupy the leading position in the structure of the disease awareness, whereas in patients with a mild cosmetic defect, the sensitive level is predominant.

[Levels of immunoreactive insulin and catecholamines in the blood plasma of patients with congestive heart failure].

The plasma level of the immunoreactive insulin and the blood level of sugar on an empty stomach and following carbohydrate provocation were determined in 31 patients with congestiva heart failure due to ischaemic heart disease. In 26 of them the plasma levels of adrenalin and noradrenalin were also studied. After 30-35 days of active therapy 15 patients were reexamined.