[Recovery of consciousness under therapy with benzodiazepines. A case report and literature review].

Background: Treatment of patients with prolonged and permanent disturbance of consciousness is still an extremely difficult problem. Nowadays, management is based on pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms of impaired consciousness. Several electrophysiological and pharmacological methods were proposed to restore consciousness in appropriate patients.

Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Predicting Dysphagia After Brainstem and Fourth Ventricle Surgery.

Objective: Dysphagia represents the main complication of posterior fossa neurosurgery. Adequate diagnosis of this complication is warranted to prevent untimely extubation with subsequent aspiration. Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IONM) modalities may be used for this purpose.

Status epilepticus after brain tumor surgery.

Background: Status epilepticus (SE) is characterized by continuous course of clinical and/or electrographic epileptic seizures. There are little data on the course and outcomes of SE after resection of brain tumors.

Objective: To analyze clinical and electrographic manifestations of SE, its course and outcomes in short-term period after resection of brain tumors.

[Early predictive biomarkers of posttraumatic epilepsy].

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects about 50 million people in the world every year. Posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) is a significant complication of TBI of any severity. PTE occurs in 20% of patients with TBI.

[Surgical treatment of gallbladder polyps].

Objective: To study the incidence of gallbladder polyps and the possibilities of modern methods of diagnosis and surgical treatment of this disease.

Material And Methods: There were 42 laparoscopic cholecystectomies in patients with diagnosed gallbladder polyps. The polyps were diagnosed preoperatively.

[Convulsive syndrome as a manifestation of acute cerebral damage due to paradoxical air embolism in neurosurgical patients. Series of clinical cases and literature review].

Introduction: Paradoxical air embolism (PAE) is a rare potentially fatal complication followed by entering of air emboli from the right cardiac chambers and pulmonary artery to large circulation circle.

Objective: To analyze five patients who underwent neurosurgical intervention complicated by PAE and early postoperative convulsive syndrome.

Material And Methods: There were five patients who developed early postoperative convulsive syndrome after previous neurosurgery in sitting position complicated by PAE.

[The management of patients with new epileptic seizures in the early period after resection of hemispheric tumors: two case reports and a literature review].

Epileptic seizures developing for the first time after a neurosurgical intervention (de novo seizures) are a challenge for choosing an optimal treatment. The pathogenesis of these seizures is often associated with factors that become inactive in the early postoperative period. These seizures can not serve the basis for diagnosing symptomatic epilepsy and should be regarded as a brain response to surgery, and patients do not need anticonvulsant therapy that reduces the quality of life.