[Creation of registers as one of the mechanisms for improving medical care for patients with chronic heart failure. Problem state].

The annual mortality of patients with clinically pronounced symptoms of chronic heart failure in the Russian Federation reaches 26-29%, i.e., from 880 to 986 thousand patients with heart failure die in the country in one year, which is comparable to the population of a large city. Providing care for patients with heart failure places a heavy burden on the country's health care system, making a significant contribution to mortality rates, hospitalization rates, including readmissions, which in turn requires considerable costs. The article presents an overview of registry studies that are devoted to assessing the effectiveness of diagnostics, the completeness of examinations, as well as the adequacy of ongoing drug treatment.

[Familial Mediterranean Fever in children and adolescents in Georgia].

There are presented preliminary results of the analysis of the materials of the register of children and adolescents suffering from Familial Mediterranean Fever in Georgia. The register was created by the "snow ball" method. For today it contains data on 138 patients, 56 (40.6%) males, 82 (59.4%) females, 86 (62.3%) less than 10 year old, 52 (37.7%) 10-18 year old. Almost in all patients the Armenian roots were revealed, both from maternal and paternal sides. Among the MEFV gene mutations M694V (mainly) and also V726A and M680I were the most common ones.

Observation of the naive-T-odd Sivers effect in deep-inelastic scattering.

Azimuthal single-spin asymmetries of leptoproduced pions and charged kaons were measured on a transversely polarized hydrogen target. Evidence for a naive-T-odd, transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution function is deduced from nonvanishing Sivers effects for pi(+), pi(0), and K(+/-), as well as in the difference of the pi(+) and pi(-) cross sections.

Double-hadron leptoproduction in the nuclear medium.

The first measurements of double-hadron production in deep-inelastic scattering within the nuclear medium were made with the HERMES spectrometer at DESY HERA using a 27.6 GeV positron beam. By comparing data for deuterium, nitrogen, krypton, and xenon nuclei, the influence of the nuclear medium on the ratio of double-hadron to single-hadron yields was investigated. Nuclear effects on the additional hadron are clearly observed, but with little or no difference among nitrogen, krypton, or xenon, and with smaller magnitude than effects seen on previously measured single-hadron multiplicities. The data are compared with models based on partonic energy loss or prehadronic scattering and with a model based on a purely absorptive treatment of the final-state interactions. Thus, the double-hadron ratio provides an additional tool for studying modifications of hadronization in nuclear matter.

Measurement of the tensor structure function b1 of the deuteron.

The Hermes experiment has investigated the tensor spin structure of the deuteron using the 27.6 GeV/c positron beam of DESY HERA. The use of a tensor-polarized deuteron gas target with only a negligible residual vector polarization enabled the first measurement of the tensor asymmetry A(d)zz and the tensor structure function b(d)1 for average values of the Bjorken variable 0.01< <0.45 and of the negative of the squared four-momentum transfer 0.5 GeV2 < <5 GeV2. The quantities A(d)zz and b(d)1 are found to be nonzero. The rise of b(d)1 for decreasing values of x can be interpreted to originate from the same mechanism that leads to nuclear shadowing in unpolarized scattering.

Single-spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized hydrogen target.

Single-spin asymmetries for semi-inclusive electroproduction of charged pions in deep-inelastic scattering of positrons are measured for the first time with transverse target polarization. The asymmetry depends on the azimuthal angles of both the pion (phi) and the target spin axis (phi(S)) about the virtual-photon direction and relative to the lepton scattering plane. The extracted Fourier component sin((phi+phi(S))(pi)(UT) is a signal of the previously unmeasured quark transversity distribution, in conjunction with the Collins fragmentation function, also unknown. The component sin((phi-phi(S)(pi)(UT) arises from a correlation between the transverse polarization of the target nucleon and the intrinsic transverse momentum of quarks, as represented by the previously unmeasured Sivers distribution function. Evidence for both signals is observed, but the Sivers asymmetry may be affected by exclusive vector meson production.

Flavor decomposition of the sea-quark helicity distributions in the nucleon from semiinclusive deep inelastic scattering.

Double-spin asymmetries of semiinclusive cross sections for the production of identified pions and kaons have been measured in deep inelastic scattering of polarized positrons on a polarized deuterium target. Five helicity distributions including those for three sea quark flavors were extracted from these data together with reanalyzed previous data for identified pions from a hydrogen target. These distributions are consistent with zero for all three sea flavors. A recently predicted flavor asymmetry in the polarization of the light quark sea appears to be disfavored by the data.

Evidence for quark-hadron duality in the proton spin asymmetry A1.

Spin-dependent lepton-nucleon scattering data have been used to investigate the validity of the concept of quark-hadron duality for the spin asymmetry A1. Longitudinally polarized positrons were scattered off a longitudinally polarized hydrogen target for values of Q2 between 1.2 and 12 GeV2 and values of W2 between 1 and 4 GeV2. The average double-spin asymmetry in the nucleon resonance region is found to agree with that measured in deep-inelastic scattering at the same values of the Bjorken scaling variable x. This finding implies that the description of A1 in terms of quark degrees of freedom is valid also in the nucleon resonance region for values of Q2 above 1.6 GeV2.

Q2 dependence of nuclear transparency for exclusive rho0 production.

Exclusive coherent and incoherent electroproduction of the rho(0) meson from 1H and 14N targets has been studied at the HERMES experiment as a function of coherence length (l(c)), corresponding to the lifetime of hadronic fluctuations of the virtual photon, and squared four-momentum of the virtual photon (-Q2). The ratio of 14N to 1H cross sections per nucleon, called nuclear transparency, was found to increase (decrease) with increasing l(c) for coherent (incoherent) rho(0) electroproduction. For fixed l(c), a rise of nuclear transparency with Q2 is observed for both coherent and incoherent rho(0) production, which is in agreement with theoretical calculations of color transparency.

[High mental functions in healthy individuals and in cerebrovascular diseases]. / Vysshie psikhicheskie funktsii v norme i pri tserebrovasculiarnykh zabolevanii.

A knowledge of time parameters of the high mental functions of the brain under normal and pathological conditions may serve as a key to understanding of their intimate mechanisms. During the first stage of the study a set of different tests including "word association", "paired words learning" was used to compare these indices in patients with atherosclerotic discirculatory encephalopathy and in normal individuals. The dynamics and volume of the short-term memory and processes of attention were evaluated. An increase of the response latencies in the paired words' tests and a decrease of both volume of short-term memory and the processes of attention were identified. Application of the tests with semantically similar or unlike words was informative.

[Differential diagnosis of pancreatic head cancer]. / Differentsial'naia diagnostika raka golovki podzheludochnoi zhelezy.

The results of clinical, instrumental and laboratory examinations were analyzed for 99 patients. 59 of them had pancreatic head cancer, 40--chronic pseudotumorous pancreatitis. The importance of complex ultrasonic diagnosis in detection of pancreatic diseases (98%), in true diagnosis of unresectable tumors (96.7%), and also in determination of bile ducts lesion level in obstructive jaundice is shown. It was revealed that spiral computed tomography (SCT) had an advantage over computed tomography in diagnosis of pancreatic tumors and in assessment of their resectability. Sensitivity of combined use of US, SCT and tumor marker CA 19-9 in pancreatic cancer diagnosis increases to 95.2%. High diagnostic value of laparoscopy with laparoscopic ultrasonic examination as a method of final assessment of tumor resectability is shown.

[A component analysis of far-field somatosensory evoked potentials in cats with temporary spinal cord compression]. / Komponentnyi analiz dal'nepol'nykh somatosensornykh vyzvannykh potentsialov u koshek pri vremennoi kompressii spinnogo mozga.

Temporary compression of spinal cord was modelled in anesthetized cats. The degree of spinal disfunction was estimated by component analysis of far-field somatosensory EPs which were recorded along vertebral column and scalp. Even a weak and short-term compression of spinal cord's dorsal columns changed biopotentials' latencies, amplitudes and interpeak intervals. Usefulness of correlative analysis of interpeak intervals as an additional way of differential evaluation of spinal pathways conductivity, was shown.

[Effect of stimulation of the thalamic reticular nucleus on the neuronal activity of the associative and nonspecific structures of the thalamus]. / Vliianie razdrazheniia retikuliarnogo iadra talamusa na aktivnost' neironov assotsiativnoi i nespetsificheskoi struktur talamusa.

Neuronal responses in center median, medial dorsal and posterior lateral nuclei to the stimulations of n. reticularis were studied in restrained cats. 53.7, 48.3 and 10%, resp., of the units were affected. Phasing character of "silent" neurons' EPs as well as the responses with primary or secondary inhibitory periods of spontaneously firing units, were demonstrated. A wide variety of the response latencies was revealed in the n. CM (5-33.6 msec; mean: 14.83 +/- 1.7 msec) and the n. DM (3.5-44.8 msec; mean: 18.03 +/- 2.5 msec) neurons. A significant convergence of the n. reticularis and somatovisceral inputs in the neurons of the same nuclei (52.83% and 53.5%, resp.) as well as inhibitory type of interaction between these inputs, were revealed.

[Participation of the nucleus epibasalis centralis in regulating the function of the skin-feather complex of poultry]. / Uchastie n. epibasalis centralis v reguliatsii funkstional'nogo sostoianiia kozhno-per'evogo kompleksa ptits.

In acute experiments on anesthetized mature chickens, the bioelectrical activity of epibasal neurons was influenced upon both by means of intradermal histamine injections and direct histamine application to the medial region of n. epibasalis centralis, as well as by uni- and bilateral lesion of this structure. The processes under study were evaluated with respect to the parameters of focal potentials and neuronal reactions induced in n. epibasalis centralis as well as by the measurement of the feather adhesive force, the latter being a correlate for the skin analyzer sensibility. It is shown that the feather adhesive force increases with growing activity of the central neurons and decreases in case of their activity suppression or lesion of the nucleus.

[Reactions of neurons of the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus to stimulation of the peripheral nerves]. / Reaktsii neironov zadnelateral'nogo iadra talamusa na razdrazhenie perifericheskikh nervov.

Neuronal responses of the thalamic lateral posterior nucleus to single electrical shocks applied to radial, sciatic and splanchnic nerves, were studied in anesthetized immobilized cats. Different degrees of responsiveness (69, 63 and 51 per cent) and latencies (9-120, 12-130 and 16-130 ms) were revealed.