[Experience in treating cysticercosis of the brain with azinox].

A case of a patient resident from Tuva who had cerebral cysticercosis is presented. The diagnosis was established on the basis of the available clinical symptoms, brain RCT and NMRI findings and a positive serological reaction (enzyme immunoassay) with C. cellulosus antigen.

[A treatment procedure for nontraumatic cerebellar hemorrhages].

The results of surgical treatment of 12 patients with non-traumatic intracerebellar hemorrhages are analyzed in this paper. The following parameters were assessed: clinical signs and symptoms, the level of consciousness, location and size of the lesion, the brain stem deformation, the rupture of hematoma into the adjacent ventricle, and hydrocephalus. In all patients with fulminant course as well as in the majority of patients with acute or subacute course when the brain stem compression progresses and seems to be unresponsive to medical treatment, surgery is strongly indicated.

[The surgical treatment of patients with tandem atherosclerotic stenosis of the internal carotid artery].

The paper specifies indications and contraindications for brain microrevascularization and carotid endarterectomy in patients with atherosclerotic tandem stenosis of the internal carotid (IC) and provides strong evidence for the succession of their implementation. It also notes the role of tandem lesion as a factor predisposing to IC occlusion after carotid endarterectomy. It is shown that brain microrevascularization serves as the method of choice, when other correcting measures for cerebral blood flow disorders fail, and aims largely at preventing local cerebral ischemia.

[Characteristics of collateral circulation in the ophthalmic artery before and after cerebral revascularization in patients with multiple occlusive diseases of the major arteries of the head].

The status of the collateral blood flow was examined before and after establishment of ++extra-intracranial microarterial anastomosis (EICMA) in 70 patients with occlusion of the internal carotid artery. Of these, 93% of the patients also had lesions of the other main arteries of the head. It has been established that in concomitant lesions of the main arteries of the brain, the role of the ophthalmic artery (OA) rises as to the compensation for the blood flow in the damaged hemisphere.