Effectiveness of infrared-terahertz radiation with acupuncture in the initial period of ischemic stroke.

Effectiveness of infrared-terahertz radiation with acupuncture in the initial period of ischemic stroke. This article presents the data of observational retrospective clinical investigation aiming at generalization of the experience of usage of infrared terahertz radiation combined with acupuncture for treatment of the patients in the initial period of ischemic stroke. The experimental group contained 30 patients which had various clinical problems at the initial period of hospitalization. The attempts to dissolve these problems within the acceptable period of time employing domestic and international standard treatment approaches failed. The control group consisted of 31 patients with uncomplicated course of stroke. The patients of the experimental group in addition to the standard treatment received infrared terahertz treatment (device ) combined with acupuncture. Despite the fact that the condition of the patients in the experimental group at admission was much serious than in the control group, at the time of discharge the level of functioning of the first group was definitely higher than the second. In 6 months that superiority increased and has been retained during two years of following up. Despite the fact that the employed in the current investigation method has been used for dissolving different clinical problems, it has been resulted in increase of the general level of functioning proved by the dynamics of such an integral criterion as index Barthel. This means that employment of infrared terahertz radiation in the stroke patients possesses the systemic effect. To recommend the discussed method for treatment of all patients in the initial period of stroke as well as its repeated employment during rehabilitation the separate prospective randomized clinical trials should be undertaken.

[Mathematical evaluation of prognostic significance of clinico-morphological and immunohistochemical features of endometrioid adenocarcinoma].

Complex examination was given to 76 patients with endometrioid adenocarcinoma and immunohistochemical parameters of estrogen and progesterone receptors, proliferative index (Ki-67), HER2 oncoprotein and clinico-morphological characteristics were entered into Excel database. Five-year relapse-free survival, development of regional metastases and relapse were used to work out three functional mathematical models. Those were employed to investigate endometrial tumorigenesis. A minimal set of the most advanced criteria of prognosis and assessment of tumor course served as tools for practical evaluation on the basis of clinico-morphological parameters, relapse, menopause duration, Ki-67 index and expression of PR and HER2.

[The role of anamnestic screening and the study of nonspecific resistance in mass examinations for the purpose of detecting preasthma]. / Rol' anamnesticheskogo skrininga i izucheniia nespetsificheskoi rezistentnosti pri massovykh osmotrakh s tsel'iu vyiavleniia predastmy.

The paper is concerned with a possibility of the use of an additional anamnestic test for selection of a group at risk for bronchial asthma during mass screenings of the community. The authors made use of the data obtained during examination of over 700 persons aged 18 to 59 years, both healthy and afflicted with bronchial asthma of varying severity. The proposed additional test was compared with conventional methods used in the anamnestic screening. Status-metry was used to design a functional model of classification of patients suffering from mild and grave bronchial asthma. Using this model, the most informative signs could be selected among nine immunologic and anamnestic signs.

[Asthmatic bronchitis as the first manifestation of secondary immunodeficiency in hereditary enzymopathy in women]. / Astmaticheskii bronkhit kak proiavlenie vtorichnogo immunodefitsita pri nasledstvennoi fermentopatii u zhenshchin.

The characteristics of nonspecific immunity were studied on an outpatient material of 80 non-smoking women aged 38-60 years, with manifestations of hereditary primary enzymopathy (hyperoxaluria syndrome). Hyperoxaluria was shown to be related to immunologic imbalance of some components of nonspecific resistance by the cellular and humoral type. In addition to biochemical differences, the group of patients with prognostically favourable chronic asthmatic bronchitis have got immunologic differences with the alternative group.

[Prognostication of obstructive syndrome in patients with chronic bronchitis considering hereditary factors]. / Prognozirovanie razvitiia obstruktivnogo sindroma u bol'nykh khronicheskim bronkhitom s uchetom nasledstvennykh faktorov.

AIM: To propose method of accurate prediction of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at early stages of development. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 92 males with COPD and 55 males with chronic non-obstructive bronchitis aged 38 to 72 years were examined according to a technique which identifies hereditary predisposition to multifactor diseases and using an algorithm based on multivariate analysis. RESULTS: An original mathematical model is proposed which can quantitatively examine and range by influence the role of environmental and hereditary factors in development of COPD. CONCLUSION: Detection of hereditary predisposition to COPD may be one of the objective criteria to recommend giving up smoking and for occupational orientation.

[Clinical polymorphism in respiratory oxalosis]. / Klinicheskii polimorfism pri respiratornom oksaloze.

AIM: Examination of clinical polymorphism of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) in defects of oxalate metabolism to make diagnostic outpatient screening of the preclinical stage. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Diagnostic dysgenetic markers of respiratory oxalosis (RO)--red hair in monthers and 24-h oxaluria--were studied in 28 women and 7 men. 8 women (group 1) had diagnostic association, 7 women (group 2) had no hereditary marker, 13 women (group 3) had no signs of disturbed oxalate metabolism. In addition, families of group 1 patients were examined for preclinical signs of visceral oxalosis in close relatives (kinship degree I). A comparison was made of quantitative enzyme assay of registering 24-h oxaluria (Lartillot M. et Vogel G) and titration by G. A. Sivorinovsky. RESULTS: Group 1 COPD patients with mild disease had rather high 24-h oxaluria. In group 2 and 3 patients oxaluria was significantly lower. Dysgenetic markers--24-h oxaluria with the hereditary criterium--may be used in differential diagnosis of RO with its phenocopy having a more severe course at preclinical stage. Male relatives of kinship degree I had significant differences with group 1 patients in 24-h oxaluria, oxaluria was combined with clinical symptoms of acid, uratic diathesis. CONCLUSION: The enzyme assay of oxalate in 24-h urine in combination with hereditary marker is an adequate screening method for preclinical stage of RO. The presence of various clinical manifestations of visceral oxalosis--RO and acid, uratic diathesis in the family--may indicate clinical polymorphism of mutant gene.

[The influence of hereditary thrombophilic mechanisms on the degree of permanent intravascular coagulation in patients with artificial heart valves]. / Vliianie nasledstvennykh trombofilicheskikh mekhanizmov na stepen' postoiannogo vnutrisosudistogo svertyvaniia u bol'nykh s iskusstvennymi klapanami serdtsa.

The genotyping of 40 patients with artificial heart valves (AHV) was performed after prosthesis of the mitral and aotic valves with bicuspid AHV (Medinzh-2 and CarboMedics). The patients took phenylin and varfarin. The patients' genotype was estimated by the thrombophylic genes: factor V Leiden (FVL), prothrombin G20210A, methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase C677T, G/A--455FGB, 4G/5G PAI-1, PI A1/A2 GPIIIa. The genes determining the thrombocytic activity or the vascular wall state substantially influence the third degree of the intensity of the permanent intravascular coagulation (PIC-3) independent of the degree of correction of hemostasis of oral anticoagulants. The addition of anti-aggregants to therapy is the only that can normalize functional activity of thrombocytes in patients with AHV having such defects. The laboratory detection of the genetic defects is of great practical importance for the determination of risk groups of formation of PIC-3 and the strategy of antithrombotic protection of patients with AHV.

[Choice of therapeutic tactics in treatment of endogenous depression by means of statusmetric expert system]. / Vybor terapevticheskoi taktiki s ispol'zovaniem statusmetricheskoi ékspertnoi sistemy pri lechenii éndogennykh depressii.

There was elaborated expert models based on computer data base including 42 formalized signs (anamnesis, state of the patients, medical measures and indices of expert estimation of the response to therapy, based on the reduction of scores of Hamilton's scale). The study was carried out in 104 in-patients whose clinical states corresponded according to ICD-10 to category "depressive episode" and "recurrent depressive disorder". The patients were divided into 2 groups: in the first one the treatment was performed by serotoninergic antidepressants (SA)-fluoxetine (20 patients), fluvoxamine (20), sertraline (30). Tricyclic antidepressant (TAD) amitryptiline was administered to 34 patients of the second group. Two data bases were formed: responders to TAD and responders to SA. Natural pair model of classification (error of the model--12.5%) including 9 informative signs, was constructed, that gave chance to define probability sensitivity to TAD and SA. Check-up of computer model revealed that 3 patients of SA group didn't submit to decisive rule, while there were found 2 such patients in TAD application. Application of computer experiment permitted to turn from group prognosis to individual one.