[24-hour monitoring of bioelectric activity of the brain in patients after cranial injuries].

In patients after craniocerebral trauma 24-hour EEG and routine EEG records were obtained. 44 cases were studied between 6 and 38 days after trauma and 45 cases were examined between 6 and 12 months after trauma. The diagnosis of brain commotion in early phase based on neurological examination and computed tomography was made in 22 cases, while in 22 cases late posttraumatic phase was diagnosed.

[Late sequelae of epidemic viral meningitis].

In autumn 1982 during an epidemic of meningitis caused by Coxsackie A9 and ECHO4 viruses 36 patients, usually young, were hospitalized. After 3-4 years 22 of them were subjected to control examinations, carrying out medical examination. EEG, ACG, motor nerve conduction velocity measurements and psychological examinations by the tests od Eysenck, Bender-Koppitz and Wechsler.

[Prospective evaluation of health status of the progeny of men with epilepsy].

Forty children of epileptic fathers were followed-up for 5 years. The mean age of the children was 10.2 years.

[Prospective EEG studies of offspring of fathers with epilepsy].

EEG tracings were analysed in 100 children of 58 fathers with epilepsy. A group of children aged up to 18 years was isolated and in 40 of them serial EEG investigations were carried out during 4-5 years. In this group abnormal tracings were found in 51% of cases, with seizure activity in 31%.

[Evaluation of the results of treatment of SSPE (subacute sclerosing panencephalitis) with isoprinosine].

The period of survival in the group of 36 boys and 18 girls with SSPE, as well as the condition of 13 living persons were examined. 30 children were treated with isoprinosine. A 3 years-long period of survival was significantly more frequent in the group of 18 children with long-term therapy by isoprinosine in comparison to 24 children without isoprinosine administration.

[The number of children and marriages among men with epilepsy].

In a representative group of 243 epileptic men the frequency of marriages was evidently lower than in the general population: 50.6% and 71.8% respectively, and it was lower than in the group of epileptic women.

[EEG in offspring of epileptic mothers].

In a group of 134 children of epileptic mothers abnormal EEG tracings were found in 39.6% of cases, 7 of these children (5.2%) had epileptic seizures.

[Fertility in the population of women with epilepsy].

Retrospective inquiry investigations of 263 women with epilepsy at the age above 15 years demonstrated that the reproductive functions in these women were twice lower than in the general population of this region. The number of unmarried was 7% above that in the population, 25% of married epileptic women had no children, and most married women controlled the birth rate resorting frequently to artificial abortions. The index of perinatal mortality of the newborns, dead fetuses and early deaths) was over three times higher than in the population: 88.

[Neurological syndromes in the course of systemic lupus erythematosus].

Seven cases of SLE with concomitant neurological syndromes are reported. In 2 cases brain stroke with right-sided hemiplegia and aphasia developed, in the remaining cases brain-stem stroke with subarachnoid haemorrhage, progressive hemiparesis and signs of intracranial hypertension, chorea, status epilepticus in terminal uraemia were observed. In one case myasthenia coexisted.

[Isolated temporary pharyngeal paralysis in childhood. Viral neuroinfection with a mild course?].

The authors describe a boy aged 14 years who had identical signs as those described in 1976 in cases of isolated temporary pharyngeal paralysis (Edin et al). In this syndrome Sullivan and Carlson (1976) observed a rise in the titre of antibodies to Herpes simplex virus, and Nussey (1977) found in it infection caused by Coxsackie type A9 virus. In the presently reported case full serological and virological investigations were not done.