DIFFUSION TENSOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN BRAIN WHITE MATTER IN SMALL VESSEL DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND IONIZING RADIATION.

Objective: to determine the early signs of structural changes in brain white matter in small vessel disease associated with arterial hypertension and exposure to ionizing radiation using DTI-MRI.

Materials And Methods: 45 patients (mean age (57.56 ± 6.

[Age-related changes in the cervical spine studied based on the results of a quantitative analysis of its structural-functional characteristics].

Quantitative parameters characterizing the shape and interlocation of the vertebrae were determined in roentgenograms of 60 healthy persons and of 61 patients suffering from chronic pain syndrome caused by cervical osteochondrosis. The calendar age of the persons examined has correlated mostly with a group of parameters characterizing the shape of vertebrae (the highest correlation was with the length of vertebrae). Using the multiple correlation method the authors have worked out highly reliable (p < 0.

[Dopplerographic study of the internal carotid and vertebral arteries in middle-aged and elderly patients with a chronic cervical pain syndrome].

The method of discriminant analysis was used to treat data of ultrasound dopplerographic examination of the major arteries in the neck in 67 patients of middle and old age with neurodystrophic manifestations of cervical osteochondrosis and pain syndrome of different intensity. Most informative for distinguishing these groups independent of the age was the systolic linear pulse blood flow velocity in the right vertebral artery during rest and in the vertebral arteries during short-time compression of the right common carotid artery.

[Intervertebral spondylodesis of mid- an lower-cervical vertebrae using blood-supplied transplants].

The anatomical prerequisites, grounds and methods of anterior osteoplastic spondylosyndesis after traumas of the cervical part of the spinal column are described. Layer transplants from the manubrium sterni on the feeding pedicle--the breast portion of the muscle were used. The evolution of blood supplied transplants in 20 patients (out of 25 patients operated upon) was followed.