[Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy assessed using two-field mydriatic fundus photography].

Unlabelled: Early detection of diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an urgent ophthalmological problem in Russia and globally.

Purpose: This study assesses the prevalence of asymptomatic retinopathy and attempts to identify risk groups for its development in patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus (T1DM and T2DM).

Material And Methods: The study involved clinics from 5 cities in the Russian Federation and it included 367 patients with DM, 34.

[Several subclinical forms of epileptic dysphoria and their ambulatory treatment].

As a result of a clinico-biochemical study covering 58 epileptic patients with dysphoric states, the authors identified 2 clinical groups with the characteristic clinical features and biochemical profile. On the basis of the data obtained, a definite tactics of the treatment for dysphoric states is proposed. Multiple modality treatment with the use of anticonvulsants, neuroleptics, antidepressants and psychostimulants is recommended.

[Various aspects of the pathogenesis and treatment of hysterical neurosis and hysterical neurotic personality development].

The authors studied 53 patients with hysterical neurosis and 66 with hysterical neurotic development of personality. Factors contributing to an unfavourable course of neurosis and its transformation into a hysterical development were elicited; clinical variants of the formation of the hysterical neurotic personality development are described. A study was carried out aimed at comparing the functions of the serotoninergic and cholinergic systems in patients with hysterical neurosis, hysterical development and hysteroid psychopathy at the stage of decompensation.

[Therapeutic activity of tryptophan and its effect on serotonin metabolism in epilepsy patients].

The therapeutic activity of tryptophan and the serotonin blood level in epileptic patients were studied. A group of patients (24 cases) received tryptophan (a source of serotonin synthesis in the organism per os during three weeks in a dose of 0,25 g thrice daily. The studies demonstrated the decreased initial level of blood serotonin in patients, especially in those with frequent epileptic seizures and with the disease of long standing.