[Phasic changes in the brain blood-flow indices of young children in the acute period of complicated pneumonia]. / Fazovost' izmenenii pokazatelei mozgovogo krovotoka u detei rannego vozrasta v ostrom periode oslozhnennoi pnevmonii.

Cerebral hemodynamics has been studied rheoencephalographically in 39 infants early in the course of complicated pneumonia and in 19 healthy controls. The former exhibited phasic changes in cerebral circulation. On the disease day 3 and 10, a significant reduction in the blood flow took place. In children under 6 months of age cerebral circulation is less active than in those over 6 months throughout the whole acute period of complicated pneumonia.

[Diagnosis of disorders of rheological properties of blood and central and cerebral hemodynamics in infants with complicated pneumonia]. / Diagnostika narushenii reologicheskikh svoistv krovi, tsentral'noi i mozgovoi gemodinamiki u detei grudnogo vozrasta s oslozhnennoi pnevmoniei.

A study was made of the rheological blood properties, microcirculation, central and cerebral hemodynamics in children of the first year of life with complicated pneumonia. On admission to the department of intensive care and resuscitation the patients demonstrated pronounced hemorheological and hemodynamic disorders which might in many respects determine the disease gravity. Based on an analysis of the clinical observations and hemodynamic findings 3 periods of complicated pneumonia were distinguished in such children: the critical period, stabilization and repair. Each period is characterized by different compensatory adaptive and non-adaptive erythrocytic and hemodynamic reactions.