[The combination of chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine (artra) for pain relief and to reduce the consumption of NSAIDs in patients with I-II stages of osteoarthritis of the knee].

The analysis of the dynamics of pain and joint function on the background of the 3-month ARTRA.Study was conducted as a multicenter, with the inclusion of 3077 patients, 56.2% of whom received NSAIDs for pain relief. While taking after a month of therapy showed significant compared to the original value of reducing the intensity of pain. The therapeutic effect is increased with duration of dosing. It is shown that the drug reduces the need for arthritis NSAIDs after a month by 6.8%, after 3 months - by 37.3%, ie after the 3-month course of treatment with arthritis, the number of people taking NSAIDs fell by more than 3 times (up 18.9%). A significant reduction in consumption, coupled with the marked dynamics of the pain is regarded by us as a manifestation expressed anesthetic effect of the drug ARTRA.

[New diagnostic technologies in peripheral nerve injuries].

Based on experience of examination of about 300 patients with n. medianus and n. ulnaris injuries there are generalized new methodic possibilities in anatomical and functional approaches to diagnostics in peripheral neural trunks injuries. It is worth to include into the complex of diagnostic measures not only ENMG, but a set of other effective methods of investigation also. The use of modern clinical anatomical technologies (ultrasonography) permits as to detect areas of damage of the nerves, the sizes of diastasis and the location of the ends of the nerve, the presence and sizes of neuroma, as to evaluate the state of surrounding tissues, to reveal associated pathology. The application new clinical functional technologies (laser Doppler flowmetry with computer wavelet analysis of blood flow oscillations, computer thermography) allows to estimate the condition of the fine autonomous and sensor neural fibers. It empowers as diagnostics of functional condition of the nerve after trauma, as early detection the signs of tissue reinnervation after reconstruction of nerves and choice of the adequate tactics of management of such patients.

[Vascular disturbances in craniovertebral pathology in children and adolescents]. / Sosudistye narusheniia pri kraniovertebral'noi patologii u detei i podrostkov.

The peculiarities of craniovertebral abnormalities and dysplasias in children and adolescents have been studied. Different diagnostic methods (dopplerography of spinal arteries, ultrasonography, remote infrared thermography, laser doppler flowmetry, etc) were compared. The outlines for treatment the patients with cervical dysplasias are described.