Vol 39, No 6 (1958)

In marginal pathology, infections with natural focus are of great importance, among which hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (infectious nephroso-nephritis) occupies a significant place. This disease was first studied in the Far East in 1934-1940. (A. A. Smorodintsev, A. V. Churilov, G. M. Tsygankov, Sh. I. Ratner and others), later (1948-1952) its natural foci were found in the European part of the USSR (Yaroslavl, Kalinin, Tula regions , South-west of Ukraine, Transcarpathia, western part of the Urals).

Infectious mononucleosis (IM) is one of those diseases with which a wide circle of practitioners is little familiar, in connection with which diagnostic errors are often observed. In most cases, these errors are explained by the fact that due attention is not paid to the study of blood, while the blood picture can provide support points for the diagnosis of IM, and sometimes even acquires the significance of the leading symptom.

Patients with recurrent rheumatic heart disease make up the bulk of rheumatism patients treated in the clinic and hospital. So "according to our clinic, in the last decade (1947-1956) of all patients with rheumatic heart disease, 88% fell on the share of recurrent rheumatic heart disease and only 12% were patients with" primary "rheumatism.

The use of hormonal preparations of the pituitary-adrenal system in the therapy of a number of non-endocrine internal diseases is one of the achievements of medicine in recent times. The range of diseases in which the positive effect of ACTH and cortisone is described is constantly expanding. So, in 1953, there were reports of positive results of ACTH treatment of chronic nephritis and nephrosis (Thorn and co-workers - quoted from Schubert) “in 1954 Heilmeyer and a number of other authors published materials on the therapeutic effect of ACTH and cortisone in severe hepatitis and liver dystrophies

Recently, great success has been achieved in the study of coronary insufficiency, but in a number of cases its diagnosis runs into difficulties. In search of objective signs of coronary insufficiency, we drew attention to a painful point in the region of the superior cervical sympathetic node.

Choline is known to be a very common substance in the animal and plant kingdom. In the absence of choline, the processes of growth and vital activity of tissues are sharply disrupted. Choline deficiency leads to disruption of metabolic processes in the tissues of the animal body. As a component of lecithins, it participates in the processes of growth and plasticity of cell structures (Cherkes L.A.).

Phosarbine, or tetraethyl monothiopyrophosphate, was first obtained in 1931 by academicians AE and BA Arbuzov. It is a colorless, oily liquid, readily soluble in organic solvents and poorly soluble in water.

The choice of the method of surgery for closing the intestinal fistula, imposed by the surgeon, is difficult due to the fact that the fistula was sometimes superimposed during peritonitis, with the residual effects of which, when eliminating the fistula, the surgeon has to reckon with.

Recently, descriptions of "pulseless disease" have become more frequent in the domestic medical literature, which various authors also call aortic arch syndrome, primary aortic arteritis, inverted aortic coarctation, Takayashi syndrome, named after the Japanese ophthalmologist who first described this disease in 1908.

Spontaneous cerebral hemorrhages at a young age are relatively rare. In the literature, there are two works on the issue of interest to us. MI Avdeev observed cerebral hemorrhages in children and adolescents aged 10, 12 and 16 years; they arose in connection with hemangiomas in the brain and their rupture. In this case, the importance of the neuropsychic factor is undoubted.

Listerllosis can occur in various clinical forms, but the most common of them is one in which the leading symptom is mononuclear blood shift. Usually children get sick. In Saratov, there were cases of listerllosis in children. Listerllosis in an adult girl was diagnosed for the first time in Saratov.

Robbins, Enders and Weller [1] in 1950 established that when the poliomyelitis virus multiplies in tissue cultures, degeneration and destruction of cells affected by this virus occurs. This so-called cytopathogenic effect of the virus can be easily observed in infected tissue cultures under a small microscope magnification. In the future, the observation of cytopathogenic action in tissue cultures infected with various materials became a new method for detecting viruses. Using this method, a group of adenoviruses was discovered.

At the end of the last century, there were some unsuccessful attempts to treat hip fractures with surgery. Since 1931, a three-lobed Smith-Petersen pin has been used for the osteosynthesis of medial fractures. This method of fixation of fragments, due to the absence of immobilizing dressings in the postoperative period and the beginning of the early function of the injured limb, made it possible to drastically reduce the number of deaths and avoid severe complications.

From September 25 to September 30, 1958, the All-Union Conference of Surgeons, Traumatologists and Anesthesiologists was held in Kazan. At the conference, reports were heard and discussed on anesthesiology (leading speakers, member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, prof. P. A. Kupriyanov and prof. I. S. Zhorov), on colon tumors (leading speaker - prof. B. A. Petrov ), on the treatment of open fractures of the bones of the extremities (leading speaker - acting, member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, prof. N.N. Priorov); on the prevention of injuries (leading speakers, member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, prof. N.N. M. Dvorkin).

From 13 to 18 May 1958, an interregional All-Siberian conference of physicians was held in Novosibirsk, convened by the board of the All-Russian Scientific Society of Physicians and the Ministry of Health of the RSFSR.

The author has chosen a topical topic. Few works on a similar topic have been published in recent years. The work is easy to read. A lot of purely practical advice is given. The work will certainly be useful, although it is not devoid of significant drawbacks.

By the order of the Minister of Health of the TASSR, gratitude was announced to the chief physician of the Kuibyshevsky region N.P. Sotnikov in connection with the 35th anniversary of his medical activities.