[Tthe efficacy and safety of drug therapy divaza in patients with chronic cerebral ischemia].

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of divazа in the treatment of cognitive and emotional disorders in patients with chronic cerebral ischemia (CCI) based on clinical findings and laboratory markers of endothelial dysfunction.

Material And Methods: Thirty patients with CCI, aged 40 to 70 years, were examined. All patients were treated with divazа (2 tablets 3 times a day) for 12 weeks.

[Association of blood serum biochemical markers with neurologic syndromes in the exacerbation of dorsolumbar osteochondrosis].

The content of C-reactive albumin (CRA) and endothelin-1 in patients with neurologic syndromes of dorsolumbar osteochondrosis (lumbodynia, lumboischialgia, lumbosacral radiculopathy) during exacerbation was investigated. CRA concentration in blood serum was determined by a highly sensitive quantitative method (in the interval from 0.1 g/l), based on the reaction of immunoprecipitation.

Dyscirculatory encephalopathy in Chernobyl disaster clean-up workers (a 20-year study).

Results obtained over 20-years of following 536 Chernobyl clean-up workers and 436 control subjects are presented. Dyscirculatory encephalopathy developed more frequently in persons exposed to radiation at age 30 years. As compared with the control group, workers were characterized by early onset of disease, faster progression, stable symptomatology for 5-6 years, and further progression of disease in the form of autonomic dysfunction, psycho-organic syndrome, and epilepsy.

[Discirculatory encephalopathy in liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power station: a twenty-year study].

A comparative twenty-year study of 536 liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and 436 patients without radiation anamnesis has been carried out. Discirculatory encephalopathy (DE) was more often developed in subjects exposed to radiation at the age 30 years. Compared to individuals from the general population, it is characterized by the earlier onset, malignant progression, rapid increase of signs of cerebral affection during the first two years after exposure to radiation, stability of clinical symptoms during the following 5-6 years and further progressive cerebral decompensation with early autonomic dysfunction, psychoorganic syndrome, epilepsy.

[The role of physical exercises in the improvement of cognitive functions in patients who survived stroke, in the early rehabilitative period].

The objective of this work was to evaluate the efficacy of a complex of physical therapy exercises "Brain gymnastics" in post-stroke patients. Eighty three such patients enrolled in the study were randomly allocated to two groups. The program of physical rehabilitation for patients comprising one group (n = 41) included regular exercises with elements of "brain gymnastics" whereas patients of the other group (n = 41) received standard rehabilitative treatment.