[Pathogenetic criteria of nephroptosis]. / Patogeneticheskie kriterii podvizhnoi pochki.

The aim of the study was to specify treatment policy in nephroptosis on the basis of characteristics of the onset, development and course of the disease. A total of 83 patients with nephroptosis were examined. The rotation angles of the kidney were summed using standard excretory urograms in clino- and orthostasis. Radionuclide nephroscintigraphy, rheorenography were made in 72 patients. Statistical processing employed correlation, cluster, discriminant analysis of the program Statistica. The method of estimation of the angles of rotation of the movable kidney in three planes was introduced. Grouping of patients by the sum of the rotation angles appeared more precise in reflecting disorders of intraorganic circulation in the kidney than skeletotopic distribution by the nephroptosis degree. Standard excretory urograms allow determination of the sum of the angle of rotation of the movable kidney and, finally, adequate conservative or surgical treatment method. Surgery can correct disorders of intraorganic blood flow by creating physiological position for the kidney raising to the due level and eliminating rotation.

[Evaluation of clarithromycin efficacy in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia on the basis of the Binax NOW test results (a prospective open trial)]. / Otsenka éffektivnosti klaritromitsina pri terapii vnebol'nichnykh pnevmonii, osnovannoi na rezul'tatakh testa Binax NOW (otkrytoe prospektivnoe issledovanie).

The results of the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia with clarithromycin (500 mg bid for 6-8 days) at 172 patients (military recruits aged 18-25) are presented. Diagnosis, infection performance, treatment efficacy were evaluated by complex of data (X-ray, sputum analysis by bacteriological and cultural tests and immunochromatography test Binax NOW for pneumococcal antigen identification). High efficacy of clarithromycin for the treatment of moderate and mild pneumonia (including pneumococcal pneumonia) was demonstrated. Side effects were registered at 6.2 per cent of patients (gastro-intestinal disorders at 5 patients) and 1 general urticaria at 1 patient whose treatment had to be changed).

[The coordination of the work of medical units and institutions in the combat arms and services of the Armed Forces]. / O koordinatsii raboty meditsinskikh chastei i ichrezhdenii rodov voisk i vidov Vooruzhennykh Sil.

The transition to a territorial system of medical support needs to solve a problem of control over the work of all military medical establishments in the zone of responsibility of the base military hospital independently of their subordination to different fighting services. To meet these requirements it is necessary to create a coordination centre (group) in the base military hospital. Its basic task is to coordinate all medico-diagnostical, sanitary-hygienic and counter-epidemic measures in the zone of responsibility and also to supervise the special training of medical personnel. Another important task is to coordinate combat and mobilization readiness of medical units and establishments in the zone of responsibility.

[Modulation of emotional reactions via biocontrolled readjustment of intercentral relations]. / Moduliatsiia émotsional'nykh reaktsii posredstvom bioreguliruemoi perestroiki mezhtsentral'nykh otnoshenii.

In cats, changes in the feedback between the strength of current used for hypothalamic stimulation and the theta--rhythm of temporal cortex exert diverse effects on conditioned response of fear evolved by means of combining an auditory stimulus with electrical stimulation of the same hypothalamic area. Biocontrolled micropolarizattion (BMP) with positive feedback suppresses, whereas BMP with negative feedback enhances the conditioned response. The changes in the feedback during BMP between excitation of temporal cortex and the hypothalamus seem to be a modulation of connections between the centers of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.