[Diagnostic capabilities of spinal MR angiography and spinal MR tractography in a patient with motor neuron disease].

Motor neuron diseases (MND) include two main forms - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). A certain part of these diseases is hereditary, while etiology of sporadic cases remains unknown. Both entities are known to develop because of motoneurons damage.

[Utility of spinal MRI tractography and spinal MRI angiography in the diagnosis of spastic diplegia].

There are different views on the nature of cerebral palsy, but no one has been accepted commonly. Since, every new observation of this disorder based on thorough clinical examination could convert the obscurity into clear and simple conception. We report the case of 4-year-old boy with lower paraplegia and speech retardation.

[Comparative characteristic of clinical efficacy of the original drug Movalis and its generic Amelotex in the treatment of non-specific lumbar pain].

Objective: To perform a comparative analysis of the efficacy of the original drug meloxicam (movalis) and its generic (amelotex) in the treatment of patients with lower back pain.

Materials And Methods: The analysis of treatment results of 112 (61 men and 51 women) employees of JSC «Admiralteyskie Verfi», aged 18 to 60 years, was carried out. All these patients were treated in the period from 2015 to 2017 at the Medical Center of JSC «Admiralteyskie Verfi» due to dorsalgia of lumbosacral localization (ICD-10, item M54).

Should all inflow stenoses be treated in failing autogenous hemodialysis fistulae?

Purpose: To determine whether angioplasty of inflow stenosis in malfunctioning but patent autogenous hemodialysis fistulae has an impact on postintervention primary patency in patients without a clinical indicator of inflow-related access malfunction.

Materials And Methods: Medical records for 76 procedures in 62 patients with inflow stenoses undergoing fistulography in nonthrombosed mature autogenous fistulae without an inflow-related indication of access malfunction over a 5-year period were reviewed retrospectively. Control and treatment arms were defined as patients with untreated (26 procedures in 23 patients) and treated (50 procedures in 39 patients) inflow stenoses, respectively.

Catheter-based intraaccess blood flow measurement as a problem-solving tool in hemodialysis access intervention.

Purpose: To investigate retrospectively the use of catheter-based intraaccess blood flow measurements as an adjunct to physical examination and fistulography in hemodialysis access interventions.

Materials And Methods: Among 1,540 dialysis interventions performed at a single institution in a 2.5-year period, 104 qualifying catheter-based flow measurements were made in 70 mature native fistula interventions in 55 patients and 34 graft interventions in 31 patients.