[NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DISORDERS OF HIGHER MENTAL FUNCTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS].

Patients with RR (n=45) and SP (n=24) types of multiple sclerosis (MS) were analyzed using original Luria neuropsychological battery. On the basis of the results obtained, the general characteristics of neuropsychological syndromes were determined: asthenic manifestations; certain violations of the auditory-speech memory; decreased visual memory; disorders of interhemispheric somatosensory transfer; violations of the simultaneous factor of the mental activity organization. It is shown that the progressive type of MS is characterized by a significantly greater degree of severity of the above disorders, as well as their certain qualitative features: a wider range of mnestic disorders; the presence of disturbances in the interhemispheric transfer of motor information; the presence of violations of the assessment of rhythmic sequences by ear; the presence of visual-constructive activity disorders.

[Indices of lipid metabolism and peroxidation in normal newborn infants].

Studies of lipid metabolism and peroxidation values, carried out in healthy newborns in the town of Irkutsk, have shown that total lipid and triglyceride levels in these newborns over the first ten days of their lives were similar to those in age-matched infants in the European USSR, whereas plasma total cholesterol levels were significantly higher in them as against the newborns in other regions of the country. The studies included measurements of malonic dialdehyde and total antioxidative activity of blood plasma and red cells, of catalase and peroxidase activities, of red cell peroxidation resistance.

[Correlation of electrocoagulogram indices with coagulogram tests].

New electrocoagulogram characteristics are suggested. Mathematical analysis has revealed a correlation between some acknowledged electrocoagulogram characteristics and the suggested tests, on the one hand, and plasma heparin tolerance, plasma recalcification time, prothrombin time, fibrinogen content, fibrinolytic activity, and fibrinase activity, on the other. The results of examinations of 76 patients with acute esophagogastroduodenal hemorrhages have confirmed a high informative value of the new characteristics and a possibility of determining the traditional coagulogram values from electrocoagulogram data.