[External respiratory function in patients with spinal cord damage at the cervical and thoracic levels].

External respiratory function was examined in 79 patients with spinal cord damage at the cervical and thoracic levels before and 1-3, 5-7 days after surgery. They also underwent cliniconeurological and neurophysiological studies. Two groups were identified.

[Kinetic therapy for acute respiratory distress syndrome].

The authors evaluated the clinical and physiological effects of kinetic therapy (KT) in the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Forty-six patients with ARDS underwent successive postural positioning in accordance with two regimens: 1) lateral, prone, contralateral, supine positions; 2) prone, lateral, contralateral, supine positions. The criterion for changing each position was the change in monitoring indices: SpO2, PaO2, and thoracopulmonary compliance (C).

[Normal echographic anatomy of the brain in newborn babies of various gestational ages].

Normal echographic anatomy of the brain was studied in 179 newborns whose gestation age ranged from 25 to 42 weeks. Specific features of various brain structure images (caudate nucleus head, islet, periventricular spaces, large hemisphere sulcus) are analyzed in relation to the gestation age of the infants and the scanning plane. Normal parameters of the cerebral ventricles, cerebellum, corpus callosum, transparent septum space, etc.

[Ultrasonic diagnosis of malformations during the 1st trimester of pregnancy].

Available are the results of ultrasonic investigations for 11 women with embryonal anomalies in the I pregnancy trimester. Echography was demonstrated to detect gross CNS malformations (anencephaly, exencephaly), lymphangiomas, omphalocele, conjoined twins, acardia of amorphic embryo, etc. Transvaginal sensors proved highly informative.