[Effect of hyperbaric oxygenation on the dynamics of the alcohol abstinence syndrome]. / Vozdeistvie giperbaricheskoi oksigenatsii na dinamiku alkogol'nogo abstinentnogo sindroma.

Hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) was used in 40 patients with the alcoholic abstinence syndrome (AAS), Stages I and II severity, either as a component of multiple modality (in combination with drugs) or the only treatment. The results of clinico-psychoneurological examination have demonstrated that the use of HBO in the treatment of patients with the AAS significantly accelerates the time of AAS elimination as compared with the control group receiving drug therapy alone. An HBO session markedly reduces psychoneurological and somatovegetative symptomatology which is attended by a reduction in systolic blood pressure and in the heart rate. Analysis of the electrocardiographic findings obtained in patients with alcoholic involvement of the heart at the height of the AAS has shown that HBO helps improve the myocardial status. The best results are achieved in patients with Stage II AAS when HBO therapy (two sessions daily) is started at early stages of the syndrome.

[Clinical effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygenation in the combined treatment of patients with schizophrenia]. / Klinicheskaia éffektivnost' giperbaricheskoi oksigenatsii v kompleksnom lechenii bol'nykh shizofreniei.

Hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) was employed in 50 schizophrenic patients showing resistance to the conducted drug therapy. Thirty-two patients had shift-like and 18, sluggish, moderately and slowly progressive forms of schizophrenia. HBO treatment was always combined with psychopharmacotherapy. The results of the study have shown the advisability of inclusion of HBO into the multiple-modality treatment of patients with asthenic and apathetic depressions encountered during a shift-like or sluggish, schizophrenia with hysteric-hypochondriac disturbances and obsessions. The maximum therapeutic effect was observed after 10-12 sessions of HBO.

[Psychopathology of acute organophosphorus compound poisonings]. / Psikhopatologiia ostrykh otravlenii fosfororganicheskimi soedineniiami.

Under examination there were 65 patients with poisoning with organophosphorus insecticides (thiophos, carbophos, chlorophos). The leading psychotic symptoms in these intoxications were psychovegetative, psychovestibular and hyperkinetic ones, which transformed into each other, as the poisoning progressed. The therapeutic applications of atropine led to development of a drug psychosis resembling the oneiroid syndrome. While making the diagnostic differentiation between the latter and the psychosis due to the poisoning with organophosphorus insecticides one should take into account the clinical and laboratory findings.

[Experience in treating schizophrenia by means of detoxification hemosorption]. / Opyt lecheniia shizofrenii metodom detoksikatsionnoi gemosorbtsii.

A new method of sorptional detoxication (hemosorption) was used in the treatment of schizophrenia. The method consisted in blood perfusion through activated carbon. In all, 13 sessions of hemosorption were performed in 9 patients with different forms of schizophrenia. The preliminary data indicate that detoxicational hemosorption facilitates rapid disappearance of psychotic symptomatology, permits the doses of psychopharmacological drugs and the duration of hospital treatment to be significantly reduced.