[Possibilities of magnetic-laser therapy in comprehensive treatment of patients with brain concussion in acute period].

The efficacy of magnetic-laser therapy used according to the method developed by us was studied in patients having the brain concussion (BC) in an acute period. The study was based on the dynamics of values of the evoked vestibular potentials and the disease clinical course. It was shown that following the magnetic-laser therapy in combination with traditional pharmacotherapy in BC acute period, the statistically significant positive changes were registered in the quantitative characteristics of the evoked vestibular brain potentials that correlated with the dynamics of the disease clinical course. The data obtained substantiate the possibility of using the magnetic-laser therapy in patients with a mild craniocereblal injury in an acute period.

[Application of low-intensity electromagnetic millimeter waves to the treatment of diabetes mellitus].

This experimental study has demonstrated positive effects of low-intensity electromagnetic millimeter wave treatment on the development of experimental diabetes mellitus in mice. It was shown that repeated electromagnetic irradiation of the E-36 acupuncture point (daily 10 minute-long sessions for 14 days) decreased the blood glucose level in these animals, stimulated their locomotor activity, and increased life expectancy in comparison with controls. Possible mechanisms of action of low-intensity electromagnetic millimeter waves are discussed.

[Ultrasound effects on lipid peroxidation in the liver and erythrocytes in experimental post-traumatic osteoarthrosis].

We studied low frequency ultrasound effects on lipid peroxidation in the liver and erythrocytes of rabbits with experimental posttraumatic osteoarthrosis induced by transchondrial damage of the medial condyle of the right femoral bone (2 mm in diameter and 1 cm in depth in the direction of the medullar canal). Prior to treatment, rabbits with experimental osteoarthrosis had enhanced lipid peroxidation in the liver and erythrocytes. Ultrasound normalizes the above disorders in lipid peroxidation.

[Effect of magnetic and ultrasound therapy on clinical manifestations and general parameters of efficiency in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Vplyv mahnitoul'trazvukovoï terapiï na klinichni proiavy ta osnovni pokaznyky efektyvnosti likuvannia tuberkul'oznoho protsesu v leheniakh.

The authors have analized general efficiency coefficients of the treatment of 117 patients with the first diagnized pulmonary tuberculosis. The patients were divided into a control and main group. 61 patients of the main group at the initial stage of complex treatment in addition to a standard chemotherapy have recieved magnetic and ultrasound therapy. During the treatment the patients underwent complex clinical and X-ray examination. The patients of the main group have been detected to have better signs of recovering compared with the control group. The signs were the following: more rapid disappearing of main clinical symptoms, radiological marks of tuberculosis such as focal and infiltrative alterations and decay cavity closing, cessation of bacterioexcretion.

[Pain relief by low-intensity frequency-modulated millimeter waves acting on the acupuncture points]. / Podavlenie boli nizkointensivnymi chastotno-modulirovannymi millimetrovymi volnami pri vozdeistvii na tochki akupunktury.

Analgetic effect of low-intensive frequency-modulated millimetric waves (MW) was studied in mice with formalin induced nociceptive behavior reaction (licking of defeat hindpaw). MW were applied to the acupoint E 36 of the defeat hindpaw. The following MW were used: 60 GHz (1) and 118 GHz (2) which were modulated by 4 Hz; noise MW within the range of 42-95 GHz (3) and 90-140 GHz (4) which were modulated in accidental order by frequencies 1-60 Hz; combinations of fixed frequencies with noise - 60 GHz + noise 42-95 GHz (5) and 118 GHz + noise 90-140 GHz (6). All used MW combinations suppressed licking of the defeat hindpaw and increased duration of sleep and eating. The strongest analgesia was achieved in series 1-3 (42.4-69.7%), the weakest in series 6 and 4 of the experiment (12.2-19.7%).

[Physiopuncture therapy of trigeminal neuralgia]. / Fiziopunkturnaia terapiia nevralgii troinichnogo nerva.

137 patients with typical trifacial neuralgia (TN) were divided into four groups. 30 patients of group 1 received EHF therapy, 30 patients of group 2 were exposed to laser, 67 patients of group 3 were treated with combination of laser with EHF-puncture, 10 patients of group 4 were controls on conventional physiotherapy. Patients of all the groups were given drug of choice--carbamazepin. The highest response was registered in group 3, 21(31.3%) patients of which could stop carbamazepin, while 40(59.7%) patients reduced carbamazepin dose by 50-70%. Positive results were due to restoration of self-regulation in pain and antipain systems which are disturbed in TN patients.

[The use of low-frequency ultrasound in the combined therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis patients]. / Primenenie nizkochastotnogo ul'trazvuka v kompleksnoi terapii bol'nykh tuberkulezom legkikh.

The validity of low-frequency ultrasound (LFU) addition to specific therapy of pulmonary tuberculosis (PT) was investigated in 2 groups of PT new cases. The study group (n = 25) received specific therapy and ultrasonic treatment (44 KHz, amplitude 2 microm to the paravertebral region and PT zones). The control group (n = 25) received specific therapy only. The response to treatment was higher in the study group. The findings support validity of low-frequency ultrasound use as an adjuvant in treatment of PT new cases.

[The combined treatment of patients with cerebral venous dystonia]. / Kompleksnoe lechenie bol'nykh s tserebral'noi venoznoi distoniei.

The authors proposed and tried a method of complex treatment cerebral venous dystonias (hypertensive type) including along with traditional drug treatment also intranasal administration of novodrin and electrostimulation of the mastoid zone of the scalp. Of 36 patients with clinical disorders of the venous cerebral circulation (hypertensive type evaluated rheoencephalographically) after closed head injuries 24 patients showed a recovery or significant improvement, 10--an improvement and 2--remained unchanged.

[Radiologic diagnosis of chronic cerebral arachnoiditis]. / Radiologicheskaia diagnostika khronicheskogo tserebral'nogo arakhnoidita.

Basing on the use of instrumental research methods (axial computerized tomography, pneumoencephalography, angiography), 40 patients with diagnostically difficult cases of chronic injuries to the meninges were examined to assess the potentialities of encephaloscintigraphy (ES). High information content of ES was marked in 72.5% of patients. It is advisable that the given method be used in patients with suspected cerebral arachnoiditis at the first stage of research.

[Status of cerebral ventricles and meninges in subarachnoid hemorrhage (clinico-pathomorphological studies)]. / Sostoianie zheludochkov i obolochek golovnogo mozga pri subarakhnoida'lnykh krovoizliianiiakh (kliniko-patomorfologi- cheskoe issledovanie).

Long-term investigation of 64 patients with subarachnoidal hemorrhages (SH), 24 of which had subsequently died, and 2 series of experiments of animals with a single or repeated intracysternal infusion of various doses of autologous blood, yielded the description of the response of the meninges and ventricles at different terms after SH. The brain ventricles were measured by axial computer tomography and echoencephalography. A index of CSF resorption resistance and CSF pressure were determined. The cerebral meninges from experimental animals and autopsied human ones underwent the histological examination. The authors discuss the mechanisms of development of liquor dynamic disorders at different terms after SH.