Vol 39, No 1 (1958)

Guiding and generally recognized on the issue of the main pathogenetic factors in the occurrence of myocardial infarction is still the point of view proposed at one time by GF Lang, according to which the combination of coronary atherosclerosis with neuro-functional moments is sufficient and decisive.

The blood clotting process is one of the biological protective functions of the body. It can be considered that in a long chain of factors that ensure the coagulation ability of blood, the content of prothrombin in it is one of the most important links. However, even from a general physiological point of view, it is difficult to consider blood coagulation without the influence on this complex chain from the side of neurohumoral regulation. According to E. M. Tareev, "the influence of the nervous system regulating blood clotting due to the vividness of the vascular reactions and the richness of the walls with receptors" is obvious. Numerous experiments on animals and studies in humans speak in favor of this conclusion (G. I. Tsobkallo, D. M. Zubairov, G. O. Kurmaeva. L. S. Rakhmilevich, M. S. Klimova, A. A. Markosyan, F.A.Andreev with co-workers, etc.).

The valuable properties of newly synthesized chemical compounds for a long time remain very often unrecognized. An example is tetraethyl pyrophosphate, whose physiological activity was discovered many years after its synthesis. In 1931, A. Ye. And B. A. Arbuzov first obtained tetraethyl pyrophosphate and tetraethyl monothiopyrophosphate (phosparine) in pure form. Working with precautions taken in chemical organic laboratories, the researchers did not notice the toxic properties of the compound.

In Kazan, the homeland of the novocaine block proposed, developed and introduced into practice by prof. AV Vishnevsky, in recent years, a new type of novocaine blockade has begun to find application in clinics - zapleural blockade of the celiac nerves.

Despite the effectiveness of a specific agent - anti-diphtheria serum, the problem of treating diphtheria has not been completely resolved. Clinical experience shows that the limit of serum action is associated with the duration of its use and with the severity of the disease. This suggests that the processes of illness and recovery cannot be reduced to a simple scheme of the relationship between toxin and antitoxin.

Primary pleural tumors, both benign and malignant, are very rare. According to A.I. Abrikosov, fibromas, lipomas, hemocytoblastomas were described as casuistic findings. According to the statistics given in the work of IV Davydovsky (1932), malignant pleural tumors in men were found in five cases per 10,000 autopsies, in women - in four cases per 10,000 autopsies.

The pancreatic cyst is one of the rare diseases, therefore, we consider it appropriate to share our three observations. Diagnosis of diseases is not very difficult in the presence of a clearly palpable, tight-elastic consistency of a tumor-like formation in the epigastric region.

In a large group of gynecological patients suffering from uterine bleeding on a variety of grounds (inflammatory diseases, disorders of ovarian-menstrual function, neoplasms of the genital area), the group of patients with so-called juvenile bleeding is small, but this suffering is the least studied. The etiology of this disease is not always clear, therapy in some cases is powerless, blood loss sometimes becomes so significant that a life-threatening condition occurs. Local therapy for virgins is inapplicable for a number of reasons or meets insurmountable obstacles both on the part of the patient and on the part of her relatives.

Over the past 30 years, the attention of pediatricians and obstetricians has increasingly been attracted by three diseases of newborns, which differ from each other in clinical presentation, but are pathogenetically related - hydrops faetu universalis, icterus neonatorum gravis and anaemia neonatorum. This is evidenced, in particular, by the fact that the issue of hemolytic disease of newborns, the manifestation of which these diseases are, was put on the agenda of the VII International Congress of Pediatricians in 1956 by the representative of the USSR, a full member of the Academy of Medical Sciences prof. A.F. Tur.

The simplest and fastest method for the quantitative determination of serum and blood plasma proteins in clinical diagnostic laboratories is refractometric (VE Predtechensky, SD Balakhovsky, A. Gitter (Gitter) [1, 4, 9]). The refractive index of serum in the overwhelming majority of cases serves as an indicator of the quantitative content of protein in it, with the exception of the serum of patients with diabetes, jaundice, patients with uremia, and chyle serum.

Conference of the All-Union Society of Helminthologists, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. 11-15 / XII 1957, a scientific conference of the All-Union Society of Helminthologists was held in Moscow. Several hundred delegates from our country and representatives of the people's democracies took part in it.

From 21 to 24 October 1957 in the mountains. Kazan hosted an interregional conference of medical workers of the Volga region and the XIII visiting scientific session of the State Oncological Institute named after V.I. P. A. Herzen.