[Clinical picture and treatment of acute thallium poisoning]. / Klinika i lechenie ostrogo otravleniia talliem.

The authors report results of treatment of 16 patients whose disease was caused by premeditated poisoning with thallium fluoride. The first signs of the disease appeared in 5 patients 30-38 hours and in the remaining 2-4 days after ingestion of poisoned food and were manifested by dyspepsia, leg pain. Then neurological symptoms of polyneuritis and encephalomyelitis prevailed. Within 1-3 weeks alopecia, xeroderma, herpetic phenomena appeared. Most patients showed disorders of the psycho-emotional sphere (intoxication encephalopathies of anxiety-paranoia type). Severe grades of thallitoxicosis were marked by involvement of the myocardium, liver and kidneys. Excretion of the nucleus is slow: with the urine (45%), with feces (55%). For correct diagnosis and for solution medical forensic problems examination of the content of thallium in the blood, urine, feces and hair is of importance. Treatment tactics are described in detail.

[Treatment of status epilepticus in children with short-acting barbiturates]. / Lechenie épilepticheskogo statusa u detei s ispol'zovaniem barbituratov korotkogo deistviia.

The results of the multiple-modality treatment of epilepsy in 56 children of different age with the use of thiopental-sodium are presented. It has been shown that its early administration to children with a true status epilepticus makes it possible to faster bring the patient out of the pathologic condition as compared to the conventional methods of treatment. In patients with a symptomatic epistatus and in children with marked residual-organic cerebral insufficiency associated with the development of convulsions anticonvulsive therapy should be combined with the treatment of the underlying disease aimed at the correction of extra- and intracranial homeostasis.