[Brain and spine cord lesions caused by syphilis].

Objective: To analyze clinical features of the nervous system damage in syphilis taking into account the changes in the content of cerebrospinal fluid and clinical/anatomical brain damages of the brain.

Methods: The study was based on the analysis of 47 case histories of patients hospitalized in 1995-2001. The group included 47 patients, aged from 17 to 60 years.

[The porphyrin metabolism in liver cirrhosis].

Aim: To comparatively study porphyrin metabolic disturbances in liver cirrhosis (LC) of varying etiology and to estimate the diagnostic and prognostic value of the detected disorders.

Subjects And Methods: Seventy-one patients were examined; among them 34, 15, and 22 patients were diagnosed as having alcoholic, viral, and alcoholic-and-viral LC, respectively. Its predictors and porphyrin fractions were determined in their urine and feces.

[Toxic effects of cadmium on the human body (literature review)].

A review of the literature about the toxic effects of cadmium on the human body. We describe a patient with clinical and biochemical signs of an attack of acute porphyria imitated or severe lead poisoning. In the patient's blood was revealed a 3-fold, compared to the allowable rate, increase of cadmium in the normal lead content.