Establishing urogynecology subspecialty in Armenia: The Armenia project.

It is well known that there are many countries in the world where Urogynecology is not an existing subspecialty, and women are not receiving appropriate care for their pelvic floor disorders (PFD). One of these countries is the Republic of Armenia. Given the lack of expertise in the field of Urogynecology in Armenia, we conducted a study on the prevalence of PFDs and the degree of bother among women of all ages across the country, which was published in 2020.

Medical Education in the Former Soviet Union: Opportunities in Armenia.

Medical education is a critical aspect of healthcare quality and thus requires sufficient investment to meet international standards. The Republic of Armenia, a nation that became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991, has not experienced significant advancement of its medical education system as the Western world has. In 2018, the country underwent a revolution to oust systematic corruption and transition to a true democracy, providing an opportunity for future efforts to improve medical education.

The prevalence of pelvic floor disorders and degree of bother among women attending primary care clinics in Armenia.

Objective: To explore the prevalence of various Pelvic Floor Disorders (PFD) and the degree of symptom bother in a convenience sample of Armenian women in the Republic of Armenia.

Methods: Fifty women ages 20-85 years from each Armenian region (Marz) were included in the study. The survey included the validated Armenian version of the Global Pelvic Floor Bother Questionnaire (PFBQ) and general questions on demographics and comorbidities related to these disorders.

[Neuronal populations: sources of the corticothalamic projections to the partially deafferented ventrolateral thalamic nucleus].

The features of distribution and morphological structure of the motor cortex neuronal populations projecting to the cerebellar-recipient ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus after its partial deafferentation were studied in adult cats. The partial deafferentation of the ventrolateral nucleus was evoked by preliminary (three months) electrolytic destruction of the contralateral interpositus nucleus of the cerebellum. The method of retrograde axonal transport with local introductions of the marker was used.

[Primary motor and primary sensory cortex are two local cortical centers of sensorimotor body representation].

The ipsilateral cortical associative connections of different areas of primary somatic sensory (S1) and motor (M1) cortex were studied in 25 cats after local coagulation and infusion of horseradish peroxidase. It was shown, that the distribution of the associative fiber in M1 and S1 areas corresponded to the borders of somatotopic representation of different body parts. The fields within M1 (4y, 6ab) and S1 (1,2, 3a, 3b) with different morpho-functional organization were not connected by the system of association fibers crossing the cytoarchitectonic borders of the above mentioned areas.