High-speed extra-intracranial bypass combined with an assisting low-speed anastomosis: surgical technique and a clinical example.

Described herein is the technique of performing assisting low-speed and high-speed extra-intracranial bypass, followed by a clinical case report concerning successful application of this technique in trapping of a giant aneurysm of the cavernous portion of the internal carotid artery in a female patient after endured transitory ischaemic attack during the test with temporary balloon-mediated occlusion of the internal carotid artery.

[About rare causes of the loss of hearing].

The present paper reports a clinical case of local syphilitic meningoencephalitis known as Argyll-Robertson syndrome and manifested in the form of acute sensorineural loss of hearing. The patient was a 46 year old resident of the city of Irkutsk. He experienced the sharp impairment of hearing involving both ears with the accompanying feeling of dizziness, disturbed orientation of the locomotorbehaviour, the lurching gate, subfebrility, the loss of the ability to speak and write.