Multi-point accelerometric detection and principal component analysis of heart sounds.

Heart sounds are a fundamental physiological variable that provide a unique insight into cardiac semiotics. However a deterministic and unambiguous association between noises in cardiac dynamics is far from being accomplished yet due to many and different overlapping events which contribute to the acoustic emission. The current computer-based capacities in terms of signal detection and processing allow one to move from the standard cardiac auscultation, even in its improved forms like electronic stethoscopes or hi-tech phonocardiography, to the extraction of information on the cardiac activity previously unexplored.

[The use of cereton in the rehabilitation of patients with hemorrhagic stroke].

Forty patients were included in the study: 20 patients of main group received cereton in dosage 1000 mg intramuscular during 15 days and 20 patients of control group received placebo. Patient's state was assessed with MMSE, Hodkinson test, "learning of 10 words", Spielberg's trait-state anxiety inventory (a modification of Khanin), Beck depression scale. Brain blood supply was analyzed with rheoencephalography, balance in the vertical position--with stabilometry.

[Facial pains as symptoms of mental disorders].

One hundred seventeen patients, aged 16-75 years, with orofacial pains were studied. Borderline psychic disorders were detected in 106 cases, schizophrenia--in 11 cases. Facial pain was characterized by (1) polymorphism of sensations changing their site and duration, (2) absence of orofacial sensory deficits, (3) symptoms "mosaic"--a combination of separate signs specific for various "organic" facial pain, (4) absence of objective changes in oral cavity and facial region, (5) key role of psychoemotional factors in pain recurrence and intensification, (6) non-opioid analgesics and carbamazepine inefficacy.

[The joint use of hyperbaric oxygenation and EHF therapy in benign prostatic hyperplasia and its combination with chronic prostatitis].

33 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) were exposed to hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) and SHF waves. Group 1 patients had no prostatic inflammation, group 2 patients had combination of BPH with chronic prostatitis. Both these modalities are considered as to mechanism of action at different periods of the development of urination disturbances.

[A complication of local anesthesia during tooth extraction in children].

The authors describe a rare complication of local injection anesthesia, carried out in children for tooth removal: development of a specific granuloma due to Mucor and Nocardia mold fungi. The authors claim that the mycotic granuloma developed because of violation of the rules of asepsis, one of the possible violations being multiple use of disposable single-use syringes. No doubt, such complications can be easily prevented if asepsis regulations are strictly adhered to.