[Test computer systems in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders as observed in the syndrome of attention deficiency with hyperactivity in children].

The instrumental methods of evaluation of the cognitive ability of child by means of test computer systems open up real opportunities for the objective and thorough examination of main processes of the cognitive ability. An objective quantitation of the cognitive sphere makes it possible to prognosticate the intellectual development of child and to use such methods not only in the diagnosis and prevention but also in the correction of cognitive disorders.

[Antibodies to proteinase-3 and myeloperoxidase in systemic vasculitis].

Aim: To investigate occurrence and diagnostic significance of antibodies to proteinase-3 (aPR-3) and myeloperoxidase (aMPO) in systemic vasculitis (SV).

Material And Methods: A total of 98 patients with different forms of SV were examined: nonspecific aortoarteritis (NAA, n = 18), nodular polyarteritis (NP, n = 18), Wegener granulomatosis (WG, n = 20), obliterating thrombangiitis (OT, n = 21), and hemorrhagic vasculitis (HV, n = 21). Eight patients with primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) and 20 donors comprised a control group.

[Pulse-therapy with glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide in the treatment of thromboangiitis obliterans].

Effectiveness of glucocorticoid and cyclophosphamide pulse-therapy was studied in patients with thrombangitis abliterans (TA). We examined 28 males. All of them were treated with antiplatelet agents and vasodilators in standard doses.

[Effects of pulse-therapy on natural anticoagulant system of the endothelium in nonspecific aortoarteritis].

Aim: To investigate the influence of pulse-therapy on anticoagulant system of the endothelium in patients with nonspecific aortoarteritis.

Material And Methods: Eleven patients (9 females and 2 males, mean age 33.4 +/- 8.

[Antibodies to phospholipids and the vascular endothelium in nodular polyarteritis].

Clinical significance of antibodies to phospholipids (aPL) and vascular endothelium (aVE) was evaluated in 20 patients (9 women and 11 men aged 36 +/- 10.8 years) with nodular polyarteritis (NP) corresponding to classification criteria of the USA Rheumatology College. Antibodies to cardiolipin (aCL) (IgG and IgM) and to beta 2-glycoprotein (beta 2-GP1) (IgG) were titered by solid-phase enzyme immunoassay.