Vol 43, No 3 (1962)

In the early years of the study of tick-borne encephalitis in the USSR, it was believed that it occurs only in the Far East (hence its name "taiga", "Far Eastern"). Only later were its centers established in the Urals, in Western Siberia, Kazakhstan, and later in the European part of the Soviet Union - in the Latvian, Estonian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian republics.

In the literature there are a number of reports on the effect of physical activity on the coronary circulation, but we did not find any works on the effect of a regimen with restriction of muscle movements on the ECG of patients with coronary insufficiency. This article reports the results of research on this issue. In addition, ECG changes were studied in patients in the subacute stage of myocardial infarction under the influence of walking.

Recently, quite justifiably in the literature, the question of the allocation of obliterating atherosclerosis into an independent disease has been raised more and more often. Most surgeons attributed it to the group of obliterating endarteritis, while in ethnology and pathogenesis, clinic and course, it differs significantly from obliterating endarteritis and requires special measures for treatment (L.A. Zbykovskaya, A.T. Lidsky).

The problems of liver and biliary tract pathology occupy a prominent place among the problems attracting special attention of clinicians.

As you know, functional disorders of the large intestine are common in many diseases. Practical doctors usually pay little attention to them and, in particular, to the effect of such frequently used drugs as antibiotics, sulfonamides, vitamins, and anticholinergic drugs. In this regard, we have made an attempt to find out the advisability of using some of them in the treatment of functional disorders of the intestine.

Among closed abdominal injuries, liver ruptures are the most severe, surgical treatment of which still gives high mortality (with isolated injuries, according to B.P. Levitsky - 41.7%, A.A.Korolev - 50%, G.F. Nikolaev — 15%, SV Lobachev and OI Vinogradova — 12.5%), and when combined with damage to other organs, the lethality reaches 50-90%.

The problem of the pathogenesis and treatment of portal hypertension and cirrhosis of the liver is one of the most complex and difficult chapters of modern medicine. The difficulty lies both in the variety of etiological and pathogenetic features of this syndrome, and in the low effectiveness of conservative and surgical methods of treatment.

In obstetrics, there is still no single, accepted by all nomenclature that determines the time of discharge of amniotic fluid.

The test for the hydrophilicity of tissues according to McClure, which is reduced to the intradermal administration of 0.2 saline and monitoring the time of resorption of the blister formed in this case, has already been used for rheumatism in children (O. K-Miss), and its acceleration in the acute period has been shown rheumatism up to 15-40 minutes, whereas normally its time ranges from 30 minutes. in infants up to 52 minutes. - at an older age (MS Maslov), The most significant acceleration of it was observed in violent rheumatic arthritis and in severe acute period with severe symptoms of heart failure.

Despite the fact that in recent years there has been a steady decline in the incidence of diphtheria, the number of its severe forms continues to remain relatively high.

Lumbosacral radiculitis is the most common reason for referring to neuropathologists at polyclinics. According to DA Shamburov, sciatica accounts for 12-20% of all nervous diseases and 60-70% of all lesions of the peripheral nervous system.

The occurrence of an anomaly of the upper lobe of the right lung is due to an unusual passage of the azygos vein. In the process of embryonic development, the azygos vein is initially located in the posterior mediastinum to the right of the spine, reaches the level of the IV-V thoracic vertebra, here it bends through the root of the right lung and flows into the superior vena cava.

Even Lenin (1895) and Klemperer (1896) described chronic glycosuria, which by pathogenesis, clinical picture and prognosis has nothing to do with classical diabetes mellitus. The authors called this form renal diabetes, considering that glycosuria is based on an increase in the permeability of the renal barrier for sugar.

In the domestic and foreign literature available to us, we did not find data on the content and dynamics of sialic acid in chronic nonspecific lung diseases. In this regard, we decided to conduct observations and compare the results obtained with the clinical picture and such indicators of the inflammatory process as ROE and the number of leukocytes, as well as with protein fractions, which were determined by electrophoresis on paper.

I., 10 years old, was admitted to the surgical department 21 / 1-61, with a diagnosis of acute appendicitis.

If unilateral ovarian apoplexy is quite rare and accounts for 0.5-2% among intra-abdominal bleeding of genital origin (M. S. Malinovsky, I. S. Breido, O. I. Topchieva, D. A. Lemberg, A. A. Vasiliev and others), then bilateral ovarian bleeding from the ovary is extremely rare.

We used corticosteroid hormones (cortisone, prednisone) in 104 patients with psoriasis; several patients received ACTH. Of the 50 patients treated with cortisone, there were patients with a widespread process (39 people) and even a universal process (5 people).

In acute coronary insufficiency, cerebral vascular disorders are not uncommon. NK Bogolepov calls the resulting states a combined coronary-cerebral crisis.

In the clinic of hospital therapy of the Sverdlovsk Medical Institute, beginning in 1946, observations were carried out regarding the dietary treatment of 335 patients with essential hypertension.

Currently, among the patients of the endocrinology department of the hospital. S.P.Botkin's thyrotoxicosis began to occur much more frequently in the elderly. So, for 1958 and 1959. of 450 patients hospitalized for thyrotoxicosis, at the age from 40 to 60 years, there were 230. and 60 years and older - 35 (7 men and 28 women). In all 35 patients, thyrotoxicosis was severe or moderate. Patients often reached extreme exhaustion and adynamia. Blood cholesterol decreased more often. In severe cases, there was also thyrotoxic hepatitis.

Peptic ulcer disease in young men is in many cases atypical, often with micro-symptoms and even asymptomatic (2.97%); exacerbation of the disease in most cases occurs regardless of the season, that is, atypicality is combined with acyclicity and aseason.

The principle of galvanopalpation was first proposed by Kagane and further developed by Albrecht. E. T. Zalkindson, M. N. Tumanovsky and others.

In 1959, we performed 18 operations (appendectomies - 4 laparotomies - 3, gastric resections - 6, other operations - 5) under local anesthesia with V-% novocaine solution according to the method of "creeping infiltrate" according to A.V. Vishnevsky with premedication with drugs phenothiazine series and the introduction of anti-shock fluids during the operation.

In the pathogenesis of pemphigus, a large place is occupied by toxic, dystrophic changes and metabolic disorders. Proceeding from this, we studied blood proteins by paper horizontal electrophoresis on an EFA-1 apparatus.

At the 22nd All-Union Congress of Surgeons, V.S. Levit, in his keynote speech, highlighting the distribution of endemic goiter in the Soviet Union, noted that goiter occurs in the Nizhny Novgorod Territory in the region of Murom and Kovrov. Before the Great October Revolution, the issues of endemic goiter in the Nizhny Novgorod province were not studied

Among our patients with poliomyelitis, 42 were vaccinated, of which 11 were vaccinated once. twice - 25, three times - 6. There were 68 unvaccinated patients. Age - from 9 months. up to 7 years. Patients were treated with complex symptomatic means, therapeutic exercises, massage, paraffin applications and other types of physiotherapy.

The state of smell was determined in chronic tonsillitis, rheumatism, acute catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, influenza, sinusitis, vasomotor rhinitis, curvature of the nasal septum, otogenic brain abscess, otitis media, concussion. For the study, we used the olfactometers developed by us, into which air is pumped by an air blower and further through the tube enters the respiratory tract of the subject. In the device, a different concentration of an odorous substance necessary for research is created. The subject has a sensation of smell and its disappearance.

Currently, the old theory of Freud, with its primacy of instincts over consciousness, is manifested in the so-called sociological direction of psychoanalysis, called neo-Freudianism. Representatives of this new trend moved away from a purely Freudian position, explaining neuroses in terms of only one sexual desire.

The idea of creating a vacuum apparatus was put forward about 150 years ago (McKay, Zeman, Simpson, etc.). However, the method received wide application only after the creation of Finderle (Yugoslavia, 1952) and, independently of him, Malmström (Sweden, 1953) of more advanced models of vacuum extractors.

The introduction of obstetric forceps into practice did not satisfy obstetricians, since their use can cause severe damage to the birth canal and the head of the fetus, even if the head is located in the wide part or in the exit of the small pelvis, not to mention the imposition of high forceps, which is dangerous for both the mother and for the fetus.

The book is intended for a wide range of practitioners. The description of specific data on oxygen deficiency at various stages of hypertensive disease is preceded by a presentation of general information about the physiology of respiration, its impairments and methods for studying the functional state of the respiratory apparatus

The rapid development of industry in our country and the involvement of female labor in it urgently require the study of harmful production factors, their influence on the female reproductive system and measures to protect the health of female workers. The peer-reviewed monograph by prof. M. A. Petrova-Maslakova and I. I. Klimets on industrial vibration as a frequent factor encountered in the professional work of many women and its influence on the female reproductive system

In the program report "On the intermediate forms between angina pectoris and myocardial infarction" prof. AL Myasnikov emphasized that these forms are approved by life itself.

The congress was attended by about 500 delegates. 142 reports were heard on the following program issues: 1) the state of dermato-venereal power in the USSR and the next tasks to improve it; 2) treatment of syphilis and gonorrhea: 3) hemo dermis