[Validation of the Russian version of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Physical Performance for assessment of patients with post-stroke paresis]. / Validatsiya russkoyazychnoi versii shkaly Fugl-Meiera dlya otsenki sostoyaniya patsientov s postinsul'tnym parezom.

OBJECTIVE: To perform linguistic and cultural adaptation of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Physical Performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study for assessment of psychometric properties included 53 post-stroke patients with neurological deficit presented by hemiparesis of different severity. The patients were assessed twice: at admission and after 14 days of treatment and rehabilitation procedures. The Russian version of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Physical Performance was developed with consideration of language and cultural characteristics. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Results of assessment of psychometric properties of the Russian-language version show its high validity, reliability and sensitivity. The developed Russian-language version of Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Physical Performance is recommended for using by neurologists and rehabilitation specialists both in everyday clinical practice and in clinical studies of patients with post-stroke paresis. The results obtained in the study show necessity for pre-training of specialists who perform assessment of patients with post-stroke paresis using the Fugl-Meyer Assessment of Physical Performance.

[Status of the gonadotropic function of the pituitary gland in the late periods after induced abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy]. / Sostoianie gonadotropnoi funktsii gipofiza v otdalennye sroki posle iskusstvennogo preryvaniia beremennosti v I trimestre.

Follicle-stimulating, luteinizing hormone and prolactin secretion has been evaluated with a radioimmunoassay at less than or equal to 5 years following a first-trimester abortion. Pituitary prolactin secretion was found to be most affected by abortion (96% of observations).

[State of the autonomic nervous system after induced abortion in the lst trimester]. / Sostoianie vegetativnoi nervnoi sistemy posle iskusstvennogo preryvaniia beremennosti v I trimestre.

The autonomic nervous system has been examined in 271 patients with a history of first-trimester induced abortion. It was ascertained that induced abortion affected the autonomic nervous system, thus impairing adaptive potentials and entailing the onset or aggravation of preexisting autonomic vascular dystonia.