[A role of genetic factors and related disorder of the folate cycle in ischemic stroke].

Aim: To study a role of MTHFR mutations and their associations with the disturbances of basic parameters of the folate cycle in the development of ischemic stroke (IS).

Material And Methods: Fifty-one post-stroke patients, 26 women and 25 men, aged from 29 to 87 years, were included in the study. The control group consisted of 47 healthy people, 23 women and 24 men, aged from 30 to 83 years.

[Prognostic criteria of rehabilitation of patients with ischemic stroke].

Aim: To identify prognostic criteria of the restoration of movement in patients after acute disturbance of cerebral blood circulation.

Material And Methods: Results of clinical examination of 82 patients after the acute disturbance of blood circulation in the left hemisphere were analyzed in the Center for Speech Pathology and Neurorehabilitation. The degree of hemiparesis was compared with disease history data, results of electroencephalography, ultrasound and transcranial dopplerography, computed tomography and biochemical study.

[Possibilities for neurorehabilitation in the residual period of stroke].

We examined 80 patients after extensive hemispheric ischemic stroke that occurred at least one year ago. Before admission to a hospital, the patients did not undergo neurorehabilitation. The mean period from the development of stroke till the beginning of rehabilitation measures was 22.

[Use of a low-frequency magnetic field in the combined treatment of middle-aged and elderly patients with ischemic heart disease and osteochondrosis of the cervico-thoracic spine].

The study performed by the authors into the effect of low-frequency magnetic field on coronary heart disease, cervical and thoracic osteochondrosis arising in senile and presenile patients showed the treatment to promote improvement of the heart autonomic regulation and attenuation of ischemic and vertebrogenic pain, to augment response to antiarrhythmic treatment in coronary patients with extrasystoles, to compensate for negatively inotropic effect of propranolol hydrochloride, to increase exercise tolerance.