[Study of prevalence and structure of cerebrovascular disorders in different regions of the USSR based on simultaneous epidemiological examinations]. / Rasprostranennost' i struktura tserebrovaskuliarnykh zabolevanii v razlichnykh regionakh SSSR po dannym adnomomentnogo épidemio- logicheskogo issledovaniia.

The authors describe the data of the screenings of the representative random samples from the open male population aged 20 to 54 years, carried out in accordance with the common program in 6 cities of this country. The prevalence of definite cases of cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) ranged from 7.7% in Moscow to 12% in Irkutsk. As to the structure of cerebrovascular injuries, the initial manifestations of brain blood supply insufficiency accounted for 68%. The prevalence of CVD turned out to be the greatest in Western Siberia, the least in the European region. The transcaucasian republics occupy an intermediate position.

[Hypermyoglobinemia and creatine phosphokinase MB activity as signs of combined myocardial lesion and acute cerebral circulatory disorder]. / Gipermioglobinemiia i aktivnost' kreatinfosfokinazy MB kak priznaki sochetaniia porazheniia miokarda i ostrogo narusheniia mozgovogo krovoobrashcheniia.

In order to detect simultaneous damage to the myocardium in cerebral stroke the authors radioimmunoassayed myoglubin and activity of the heart fraction of creatine phosphokinase MB (CP K MB) in the blood serum of 22 patients. Hypermyoglobinemia and elevated activity of CP K MB were revealed in almost all cases of hemorrhagic stroke (15 patients) whereas in patients with ischemic stroke they were identified far less frequently. Thus, hypermyoglobinemia and the activity of CP K MB correlate with the macro- and microscopic picture of myocardial damage and may serve as its diagnostic criteria when both the clinical picture and ECG findings prove uninformative.

[State of humoral immunity in epilepsy patients]. / Sostoianie gumoral'nogo immuniteta u bol'nykh épilepsiei.

The results of examining the content of immunoglobulins and determining the presence of organ-specific anti-encephalic antibodies in the serum of patients with epilepsy of vascular and non-vascular genesis give one grounds to regard the lowered level of the immunoglobulins as a state of the immune system characteristic of epilepsy and as a factor in whose presence an epileptic seizure starts and develops. The lowering of the immunoglobulin level and the presence of anti-encephalic antibodies mainly against the thalamus in epileptic patients is, undoubtedly, of an importance for disclosing certain links of the disease pathogenesis. It is quite probably, that the data obtained are reflecting one more manifestation of the combined affection of the immunocompetent and the nervous systems.