[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. It was also possible to show the role of acute general cerebral oxygen insufficiency due to disturbed respiration and concomitant acute cardiac insufficiency in the pathogenesis of nervous system changes in acute pneumonia. In such cases there is an anoxic brain anoxia with an insufficient oxygen supply of the cortex, brain stem formations and the spinal cord.