[Changes in the nervous system in acute pneumonia (clinico-pathomorphologic syndrome)].

An analysis of clinico-electrophysiological data obtained from 300 patients suffering from focal and croupous pneumonia with nervous system involvement is presented. Clinical syndromes of the nervous system involvement in acute pneumonias are specified. In 7 lethal cases pathomorphological examinations of the brain were carried out.

[Epileptic syndrome in nonspecific inflammatory diseases of the lungs].

The author presents the data of clinical and electrophysiological observations of 6 patients (out of 300) with acute pneumonia and 9 patients (out of 89) with chronic nonspecific inflammatory diseases of the lungs accompanied by the epileptic syndrome that developed for the first time. In those patients the convulsive seizure did not differ in their character from those observed in cases of classic epilepsy. The course of the convulsive seizures, especially at the early stages of the disease, depended on the degree of the clinical manifestations of the acute and chronic pulmonary pathology.

[Cerebral syndrome in chronic nonspecific lung diseases].

An analysis of the results of clinico-electrophysiological examinations of 89 patients suffering from chronic nonspecific inflammatory diseases of the lungs with involvement of the nervous system is presented. The clinical syndromes of the nervous system affections in patients with chronic inflammatory pulmonary diseases are specified. Of importance in the pathogenesis of these affections are progressing hypoxia, intoxication, edema of the brain and the meninges, and the effects of the infectious factors on the vascular walls and the nervous cells.

[Soporous-comatose states in patients with acute pneumonia].

On the basis of a clinical, laboratory and pathomorphological study the author describes soporous--comatose states in 26 patients among 300 with acute pneumonia. In acute lung diseases, there are symptoms of multiple lesions of the nervous system on the background of hypoxia and intoxication which evokes, liquid-dynamical and circulatory brain disorders. Progressive brain oxygen insufficiency conditions appearance of neurological disturbances from general cerebral and functional and as the state becomes more profound up to an occurence of comatose states.

[Cerebral syndromes in acute pneumonias].

The paper deals with an analysis of some clinical and electrophysiological (EEG, EMG, REG) studies in 300 patients with focal and croupous pneumonia accompanied by the nervous system lesions. The authors distinguish clinical syndromes of the nervous system lesions in acute pneumonia. It was possible to demonstrate a certain correlation between the character of electrophysiological data and the severity, localization of pneumonia, and the prevalent lesions in different parts of the nervous system.

[Cerebral circulatory disorders in acute pneumonia].

The symptomatology of acute pneumonia was expressed in diverse neurological and psychiatric changes, including cerebral circulation. The author conducted clinico-EEG and EMG correlations in disturbed cerebral circulation due to acute pneumonia. An important role in disorders of cerebral circulation is played by hypoxia, intoxication and changed metabolism, conditions leading to changed functional limbico-hypothalamoreticular complexes and changed vascular regulation.

[Neurological and electromyographic data in acute pneumonias].

The report contains an analysis of EMG studies of the main and auxilliary respiratory muscles in 47 patients with acute pneumonia. It was shown that there is a certain correlation between the character of the EMG, the severity and localization of pneumonia from the prevalent lesion of the different parts of the nervous system. In the pathogenesis of the depicted changes of bioelectrical activity in the respiratory muscles in acute pneumonia a certain significance can be allocated to changes in the functional state of the segmentary apparatus of the spinal cord, innervating the respiratory muscles.