[Eclecticism in medicine]. / Eklektika v meditsine.

Last years saw a series of publications published in different medical editions, concerning an application sphere of physiotherapy. These publications cast doubt on reflexotherapy as an independent medical discipline. New term physiopuncture was proposed in such publications, actually it is a try terminologically and in practice to substitute acupuncture and its methods (i.e. reflexotherapy) by an other medical specialty physiotherapy. The article does not call physiotherapy in question as a specialty itself, but conclude, that such forcible attribution of the reflexotherapy's methods to physiotherapy's is not acceptable. All physical influences on the acupuncture's points (laserpuncture, electropuncture, shortwave frequency puncture and others) even that being used barely through metameric principle in accordance with WHO recommendations should be referred to the sphere of reflexotherapy.

[Analysis of the transient process of cardiac rhythm in patients with cerebrovascular pathology]. / Analiz perekhidnoho protsesy rytmu sertsia u khvorykh iz tserebral'nymy zakhvoriuvanniamy.

New scientific data about vascular encephalopathy, as well as its definition, classification, etiology, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, diagnostic and differential diagnostic runs contrary in the neurological literature are presented. The review represents current data on the vascular encephalopathy. The obtained results allow to judge about baroreflex regulation, autonomic regulation of heart-vascular system in development of this pathology.

[Treatment of local hyperkinesis]. / Lechenie lokal'nogo giperkineza.

Insufficient effectiveness of medicamentous therapy of local hyperkineses necessitated quest for other treatment options. In view of pathogenetic features of this pathological process we have chosen reflexotherapy to be instituted in our patients: auriculopuncture, electro-corporal- and acupuncture which have been shown to be expedient and effective in treating 65 patients with local hyperkinesis (blepharospasm, facial paraspasm, writer's spasm, spasmodic torticollis). Positive findings from clinical and paraclinical methods of investigation corroborate the results of the treatments administered.

[Electrophysiological diagnosis of diabetic polyneuropathy in patients with newly detected diabetes Type I]. / Elektrofiziologicheskaia diagnostika diabeticheskoi polinevropatii u bol'nykh s vpervye vyiavlennym sakharnym diabetom tipa I.

With the purpose of studying the condition of the neuromuscular apparatus, an electroneuromuscular myographic investigation was conducted in 36 patients with freshly detected type I diabetes mellitus in the state of compensation with no neurologic complaints. The study made showed 100% affection of the peripheral portion of the nervous system (subclinical form of polyneuropathy) which has been shown to be more manifest in the lower extremites. The secured results corroborate the symmetry theory of affection of the peripheral nervous system in type I diabetes mellitus.

[The treatment results in a persistent pain syndrome in the neurological manifestation of lumbosacral osteochondrosis using osteoperiosteal electro- and laser puncture]. / Rezul'taty lecheniia stoikogo bolevogo sindroma pri nevrologicheskom proiavlenii poiasnichno-kresttsovogo osteokhondroza osteoperiostal'noi élektkro- i lazeropunkturoi.

The use of osteoperiosteal electropuncture and laser puncture combined in a complex treatment of 162 patients with lumbosacral osteochondrosis resulted in dissipation or apparent decrement in clinical manifestations of the trouble. In patients with lumboischialgia, there was an improvement in the pain syndrome as evidenced by scores on global painfulness (2.3 +/- 0.45 versus 30.2 +/- 0.62 before the treatment) in patients with degree IV pain. Less intensive pain (degree II-III as to I. P. Antonov) has gone away completely. In radicular pain syndrome, results on pain relief were much lower (P < 0.05), those on total vertebral and extravertebral painfulness much better (2.4 +/- 0.2 versus 17.3 +/- 0.7 and 1.2 +/- 0.6 versus 30.4 +/- 1.82 respectively). The secured results of treatment remained stable during two years.

[Changes in the immunological reactivity of patients with disseminated sclerosis treated by prednisolone and the preparation Proper-Myl]. / Izmeneniia immunologicheskoi reaktivnosti u bol'nykh rasseiannym sklerozom, lechennykh prednizolonom i preparatom Proper-Mil.

The authors examined 56 patients suffering of multiple sclerosis who were treated with prednisolone and Proper-Myl. The patients showed changes of the immunological reactivity, in particular, those receiving prednisolone in combination with Proper-Myl. To improve the immunological state of these patients the authors recommend to use bee stings, polyosol and bee pollen.

[Status of cerebral ventricles and meninges in subarachnoid hemorrhage (clinico-pathomorphological studies)]. / Sostoianie zheludochkov i obolochek golovnogo mozga pri subarakhnoida'lnykh krovoizliianiiakh (kliniko-patomorfologi- cheskoe issledovanie).

Long-term investigation of 64 patients with subarachnoidal hemorrhages (SH), 24 of which had subsequently died, and 2 series of experiments of animals with a single or repeated intracysternal infusion of various doses of autologous blood, yielded the description of the response of the meninges and ventricles at different terms after SH. The brain ventricles were measured by axial computer tomography and echoencephalography. A index of CSF resorption resistance and CSF pressure were determined. The cerebral meninges from experimental animals and autopsied human ones underwent the histological examination. The authors discuss the mechanisms of development of liquor dynamic disorders at different terms after SH.

[Clinical picture and differential diagnosis of the hyperkinetic form of multiple sclerosis and hepatocerebral dystrophy]. / K klinike i differentsial'noi diagnostike giperkineticheskoi formy rasseiannogo skleroza i gepatotserebral'noi distrofii.

To try to obviate the difficulties encountered in making the differential diagnosis of the hyperkinetic form of multiple sclerosis (MS) and hepatocerebral dystrophy (HCD), the authors performed a biochemical study characterizing liver function in 27 patients with MS attended by hyperkineses and in 14 patients with HCD. In addition to clinical symptoms, patients with the hyperkinetic form of MS, contrary to those with HCD, had biochemical parameters characterizing the differences of liver function in these diseases. These findings facilitate the differential diagnosis between the hyperkinetic form of MS and HCD.