[Comparative analysis of retinotomographic and histological examinations of retina in health and primary open-angle glaucoma].

Comparative analysis of retinal structure was performed in patients with POAG and control healthy group using spectral OCT and histology. An apparent similarity of tomographic and histological patterns of retinal changes was found in patients with POAG. These results make OCT potentially appropriate method for vital examination of retinal structure in glaucomatous eyes including early stages of the disease. Degeneration of all retinal layers is revealed. Blood flow deficiency due to sclerosis and hyalinosis of uveal vessels is considered to be an immediate cause of outer and intermediate retinal layers degeneration.

[Thyroid gland ectopia at the base of the tongue]. / Ektopiia shcitovidno i zhelezy v osnovanie iazyka.

At initial examination ulcer at the base of the tongue in a female of 25 years was diagnosed as a tumor. Further morphological investigation revealed the presence of the thyroid tissue while it was absent at the site of normal thyroid location. Most appropriate clinical and diagnostic approaches to this case are described which helped avoid unjustified surgery and related grave complications.

[Quantitative characteristics of the state of the T- and B-systems of immunity in the peripheral blood of patients with cerebrovascular disorders]. / Kolichestvennaia kharakteristika sostoianiia T- i B-sistem immuniteta v perifericheskoi krovi u bol'nykh s tserebrovaskuliarnymi narusheniiami.

A clinical-immunologic study of 133 patients was carried out to elucidate the status of the T- and B-immune systems in atherosclerotic dyscirculatory encephalopathy (ADE) in the acute period of cerebral infarction and hemorrhagic stroke. A similar pattern of elevation in humoral and tissue immunity, with quantitative fluctuations in the intensity of individual parameters in various dyscirculatory disorders, was found. The changes indicate that cerebral stroke develops in the body already sensitized in the prestroke period and its development involves the central and peripheric links of the immune system.

[Immunologic reactivity in the acute phase of a stroke]. / Immunologicheskaia reaktivnost' v ostrom periode insul'ta.

Examinations of the clinical and immunological state of 68 patients with the acute stage of cerebral stroke were carried out, and so were immunomorphological examinations of the spleen and the subclavicular lymph nodes in 36 of them whose disease ended in death. An analysis of the results obtained has shown that the immunological reactivity increases from the very first day of the disease. The authors believe that the early immunological response, especially in cases of brain infarction, is due to development of the cerebral stroke in a sensitized body. A rise of selective antibody titres depending on the character of the cerebrovascular disorder was noted: there were: anti-encephalic antibodies targeted at the malacia focus in cases of brain infarction, and antivascular, and to a lesser extent anti-encephalic antibodies in cases of a hemorrhagic stroke. The informative value of the complement fixation test was found to be greater than that of the hemagglutination inhibition test. High degrees of plasmatization of the splenic tissue and the presence of the anti-encephalic immune complexes in it, mainly in cases of brain infarction, also point to the activity of the immunogenesis in the acute stage of the cerebral stroke.