Interaction of copper with dinitrogen tetroxide in 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids.

Ionic liquids that are stable toward oxidation and nitration and are based on the 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium cation (BMIm) can be used as solvents and reaction media for copper dissolution in liquid dinitrogen tetraoxide NO. The ionic liquid not only favors the dissociation of NO into NO and NO, but also takes part in the formation of different crystalline products. Thus, NO[BF], NO[Cu(NO)] and (BMIm)[Cu(CFCOO)] were prepared using (BMIm)A, A = [BF], (CFSO)N, CFCOO, respectively.

[The efficacy of intravenous lacosamide in psychiatric hospital].

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of intravenous lacosamide (vimpat) in inpatients with frequent partial-onset seizures and affective and cognitive disorders.

Material And Methods: Fifteen patients were enrolled including 14 patients diagnosed with «organic personality disorder associated with epilepsy» (cryptogenic or symptomatic epilepsy with frequent partial-onset and/or secondary-generalized seizures (serial seizures in some cases) and 1 patient with a preliminary diagnosis of «organic schizophrenia-like disorder», which was changed for «organic personality disorder associated with epilepsy» after examination. Patients were treated with 2--3 antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), but no one of them received earlier lacosamide.

[Experience in treating cysticercosis of the brain with azinox].

A case of a patient resident from Tuva who had cerebral cysticercosis is presented. The diagnosis was established on the basis of the available clinical symptoms, brain RCT and NMRI findings and a positive serological reaction (enzyme immunoassay) with C. cellulosus antigen.

[The catamnesis of patients with stenosis of the internal carotid artery who have undergone carotid endarterectomy and of unoperated patients].

Investigation of catamnesis of 100 patients with atherosclerotic carotid artery stenosis (50 were operated and 50--non-operated) revealed, that in some cases carotid endarterectomy prevented repeated cerebrovascular disorders and had prophylactic significance. The frequency of repeated stroke in the group of non-operated patients was 3 times higher than in the group of operated patients. In operated cases no more TIAS were observed, but they persisted in non-operated cases.