[Experience in teaching nervous diseases to the students of a medical institute]. / Opyt prepodavaniia nervnykh boleznei studentam meditsisnkogo instituta.

In this article, experience gained in teaching nervous diseases to students of medical institutes is generalized. Methods for giving lectures on neurology, especialy in discussing such conditions as cerebrovascular, demyelonizng ones and some others, are presented. Ways and means of increasing efficiency of conducting practical studies are considered. A judgement is formed, based on the experience gained by the chair in teaching the relevant subjects to the students, to the effect that the level of physician training is closely associated with the use of modern computer technologies in the course of study in a medical institute.

[Myocardial status, hemodynamics and pressor humoral substances in patients with bronchial asthma and arterial hypertension]. / Sostoianie miokarda, gemodinamika i pressornye gumora'lnye substantsii u bo'lnykh bronkhia'lnoi astmoi s arteria'lnoi gipertenziei.

The analysis of data obtained for 101 bronchial asthma (BA) sufferers with hypertension and 30 normotensive patients demonstrated the dependence of arterial hypertension in BA patients on a significant increase in the systemic peripheral resistance, pulmonary circulation pressure, diastolic dysfunction, reduced cardiac output, pulse brain filling as well as on elevated serotonin level and monoamine oxidase hyperactivity. The findings provided additional information on the causes and triggering mechanisms of arterial hypertension in BA patients, are helpful in design of antihypertensive treatment and the disease prevention.