[Differentiated treatment of acute diffuse brain injuries].

Diagnosis and treatment results of 57 patients with acute diffuse brain injury have been analyzed. Patients were divided into two groups: first study period 2000-2005; second study period 2006-2010. The main differences between the first and the second study periods were in health condition and brain functions monitoring parameters, therapy approaches and goals.

[Tanakan (EGb 761) in the therapy of mild cognitive impairment].

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) means cognitive deterioration not yet causing disability or dementia. Aged patients with MCI constitute a group of high risk for Alzheimer disease and other types of dementia. Currently, there is no generally adopted approach to MCI management but medications with neuroprotective properties are presumed to be the most perspective.

[Experience in the application of pramistar, a new nootropic preparation, in the treatment of memory disorders in patients with cerebrovascular pathology].

Morbidity rise of cerebrovascular pathology is followed by remarkable cognitive decline. Chronic cerebral blood insufficiency and stroke consequences compose a group of the diseases which lead to different types of memory deterioration, consecutive memory decline and as a result to professional and social dysadaptation. The morphological basis of the problem consists in progressive structural cerebral deficit with forming a new adaptive system.

[Use of mildronate for the treatment of patients with circulatory encephalopathy against a background of stenosis of major arteries of the head].

Chronic cerebrovascular ischemia is an important cerebrovascular disorder leading to progression of the functional neurological deficite--to cognitive impairment in the first place. The main reason for the above condition is a stenotic affection of major arteries of the head. In the treatment of patients presenting with the above pathology, we used mildronate (10% infusion solution, 10 ml, for up to 10 days followed by tablets, 750 mg per day for 20 days).

[Some problems of nontraumatic nasal rhinorrhea].

The paper outlines some issues of nontraumatic nasal liquorrhea. The authors state that in the vast majority of cases, liquorrhea occurs along the passage of olfactory filaments through the perforated lamina. Their morphological studies provide indirect evidence for this statement.