Vol 66, No 4 (1985)









Occupational health issues and ways to improve health care for road transport workers
Abstract
During the hygienic assessment of the working conditions of workers performing repair and maintenance of cars, the influence of a number of unfavorable factors of the working environment was noted: intense physical labor during the main locksmith and mechanical work, gas pollution of the air with exhaust gases of automobile engines, tetraethyl lead vapors during engine repair, low air temperatures in transitional “And the cold periods of the year, etc. [1-3].









Treatment of flexion contractures and ankylosis of the knee joint with a distraction-contraction device
Abstract
Insufficient effectiveness of the generally accepted conservative methods for eliminating persistent flexion contractures of the knee joint makes it necessary to switch from one method to another in the course of treatment up to the use of operations associated with bone resection.



Theoretical and clinical medicine









Classification of arterial embolism of the extremities by the nature of the course and duration of the disease
Abstract
In recent years, treatment tactics for embolism of the aorta and main arteries of the extremities is determined mainly on the basis of clinical classification according to the severity of ischemia [3], while the time elapsed from the onset of the disease to the start of treatment is not of great importance.






Clinical features of the course of acute poisoning with organophosphate insecticides
Abstract
Poisoning with organophosphate insecticides (FOI) occupies one of the leading places in the structure of acute poisoning in our country and abroad, which is associated with an increase in the production of drugs in this group and the expansion of their range.









On the sequential inclusion of muscles in the process of myofixation in various syndromes of lumbar osteochondrosis
Abstract
In osteochondrosis of the spine, an important role is played by compensatory muscular reactions leading to fixation of the affected spinal motion segment (VMS), to the development of antalgic postures, in which the intensity of pain impulses decreases. Ya. Yu. Popelyansky identified the following types of myofixation according to the topical principle - local-vertebral, vertebral and extravertebral.















Influence of Neisseria on the mitotic activity of cells
Abstract
The ability of meningococci to penetrate cells upon infection of a cell culture and induce degenerative changes in them [2–4] prompted us to study in more detail the interaction of Neisseria with the cell, since we did not find such works in the available literature.



Reviews



Clinical experiences












On the relationship of indicators of pulmonary gas exchange in patients with rheumatic heart disease
Abstract
Numerous studies have been devoted to the study of the function of external respiration in heart diseases, however, there are practically no works establishing the relationship between various links of the respiratory system and the dependence of external respiration on clinical forms of heart disease, which is important for elucidating the mechanisms of respiratory failure.






Hepatosis of pregnant women
Abstract
Acute fatty hepatosis of pregnant women is a poorly understood and rare liver disease that occurs in late pregnancy and is characterized by a severe course and serious complications for the mother and fetus. Maternal mortality in this case reaches 80-85%.


















Detection of circulating immune complexes in patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Abstract
Severe renal pathology, a long incubation period (up to 3 weeks), a rise in the level of immunoglobulins in the first days from the onset of the disease, slowly developing clinical symptoms (within 2-3 weeks) suggest an important role of immune complexes in the pathogenesis of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome ( HFRS) in humans.









Epidemiology



Book review



Conferences
Ideological hardening of the future doctor
Abstract
On February 4-6, 1985 in Kazan, an educational and methodological conference of the heads of the departments of social sciences of medical and pharmaceutical universities of the RSFSR was held on the topic "On improving the teaching of social disciplines in medical and pharmaceutical universities of the RSFSR and strengthening the ideological and methodological orientation of teaching specialized disciplines", which was organized by the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR, the Main Directorate of Educational Institutions and the Republican Educational and Methodological Office for Higher and Secondary Special Education of the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR, the Kazan Medical Institute named after S.V. Kurashov.



Letters to the Editor
One rare auscultatory phenomenon



Abstracts


















Changes in lipid metabolism in patients with myocardial infarction under the influence of physical training
Abstract
The dynamics of lipid and lipoprotein metabolism indices in 77 patients with acute myocardial infarction under the influence of programmed physical training in the rehabilitation department of the cardiological sanatorium "Vasilievsky" in the immediate and long-term periods was analyzed.









Immunological parameters in the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis with pentoxil
Abstract
In 81 patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive bronchitis, a decrease in the content of serum immunoglobulins M, G, A, an increase in the eosinophilic reaction and degranulation of basophils were revealed, indicating immunodeficiency and a tendency to allergies.


