[Clinico-electromyographic indicators in patients with ischemic myelopathy].

Electromyography, electroneuromyography and monosynaptic N-reflex studies were performed in 61 patients with ischemic myelopathy. These data can be used to specify localization and the extent of the process. Its differentiation with several diseases providing a phenocopy of spinal disorders (tumors, lateral amyotrophic sclerosis syringomyelia, funicular myelosis) is discussed.

[Primary polyradiculoneuritis (course, outcome, work capacity of the patients)].

Clinical manifestations and outcomes of primary polyradiculoneuritis were examined in 82 patients, in 60 of whom these examinations were conducted for up to 5 years. The acute period was characterized by motor, sensor, and vegetative-trophic disturbances with prevalent involvement of the distal (rather than proximal) parts of the extremities according to the peripheral type. The immediate and late outcomes depended on the gravity of the disease course: on dismissal from hospitals recovery was registered in 47% of the patients, while the rest still showed various manifestations of the disease.