[Spa-based water procedures and complications in the course of their performance].

The scope of applications of spa-based water procedures have become considerably extended during the recent years; accordingly, the frequency of complications and accidents has increased. The present review considers the possible mechanisms underlying such complications and various factors promoting their development, such as the patients' age and chronic diseases, the use of pharmaceutical products affecting thermoregulation and cardiovascular function. Special attention is given to the influence of alcohol consumption on the frequency of complications, accidents, and sudden death associated with hyperthermal procedures, the possibility of infectious diseases and measures necessary for their prevention.

[State-of-the-art corrective and diagnostic technologies in medical rehabilitation of patients with vegetative vascular dystonia].

Including of balneological therapy with the use of the baths Bi-olong in the programs of medical rehabilitation makes possible to improve considerable the state of peripheral haemodynamics, the indices of adaptation and regulation in patients with vegetative vascular dystonia. This fact can be explained with the positive corrective effect of bath Biolong reactant mitophen on cell respiration by the system cytochrome P450 activation. Also it is possible to assume that mitophen leads to decrease imbalance between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems participating in regulation and adaptation of vascular wall. Use of bath Biolong in the therapy of patient with hypertonic vegetative vascular dystonia ought to consider as an effective, harmless and pathogenetically reasonable method which can be recommended to include in combined rehabilitation.

[The meteoropathic reactions of patients with cardiovascular diseases and the methods for their prevention with contrasting temperature exposures]. / Meteopaticheskie reaktsii u bol'nykh serdechno-sosudistymi zabolevaniiami i metody ikh profilaktiki kontrastnymi temperaturnymi vozdeistviiami.

High sensitivity of patients with cardiovascular diseases to weather conditions was successfully managed by contrast temperature training which secured not only resistance to temperature fluctuations but also to a complex of weather factors. This, in the long run, secured a decline in the number of coronary heart disease and hypertension exacerbations and higher quality of life.