Vol 45, No 6 (1964)

Syringomyelia affects people predominantly between the ages of 20 and 50. Deep trophic disorders of bones, joints, muscles and skin often lead patients with syringomyelia to a surgeon, while the primary lesion is the spinal cord. The most common surgical complications of syringomyelia are burns associated with loss or decrease in temperature sensitivity, kyphoscoliotic deformities of the spine in the cervical and thoracic regions with the formation of a rib hump, arthropathic deformities of the joints with arbitrary dislocations, massive effusions, peculiar deformities of the hand with an increase in its size (cheiromegaly), edema of soft tissues, long-term non-healing painless panaritiums, sometimes the loss of whole phalanges (mutations).

Thrombosis and embolism, according to statistics cited by many authors, are one of the important causes of mortality in the world's population (6, 8, 28).

The hemostatic picture in thrombocythemia is variegated (M.S. Machabeli, 1961, 1962; I.A. with sotr., 1956; Speight, 1957; Marshal with sotr., 1957; Arlotti et al., 1957; Bunamo, 1957; Soulier et al., 1957; Fretland, 1960). In this regard, Wasserman et al. (1958) write that the dissonance in the results is surprising, but cannot be explained by technical differences alone.

Many well-known Soviet therapists and otolaryngologists (N. D. Strazhesko, A. I. Nesterov, V. A. Waldman, L. T. Levin, V. I. Voyachek, B. S. Preobrazhensky) noted the effectiveness of eliminating the focus of infection in the area palatine tonsils in rheumatic diseases.

Bloodletting occupies a certain place among modern therapeutic measures. Most often it is produced in patients with hypertensive illness, especially when the disease is complicated by circulatory failure and frequent hypertensive crises.

Having received wide development since the 40s, immunohematology has now acquired great practical importance in the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases of the blood and internal organs. The long-standing dispute between II Mechnikov and P. Ehrlich about the possibility of the appearance in the body of autoantibodies active against their own proteins of cells and tissues was resolved in favor of II Mechnikov. Moreover, it has now become generally accepted that these antibodies are often auto-aggressive, leading to destruction, damage or dysfunction of the cells and tissues against which they are directed. Diseases in the pathogenesis of which the process of autoimmunization plays a role are called autoimmune, autoaggressive, or autoallergic. These include diseases of the blood system such as chronic acquired hemolytic anemia (idiopathic and symptomatic), some types of idiopathic and symptomatic leukopenias and thrombocytopenic purpura, allergic (drug) cytopenias, as well as a number of diseases of other organs (systemic lupus erythematosus, Hashimoto's disease and others ).

In 1878 in Russia A. Wigandt first presented the characteristics of bone lymphogranulomatosis. The works of Z. V. Mankin (1938), L. V. Funshtein (1940 and 1946), S. A. Reinberg (1955), A. E. Uspensky (1958), F. V. Kurdybailo (1961), V.A. Khazhinskaya (1962) and others.

Vascular lesions of the brain are common and, together with cardiovascular diseases, give the highest mortality in the overall morbidity - 2.5 times higher than with neoplasms. Mortality from vascular lesions of the nervous system, according to the World Health Organization, is about 14% of total mortality.

Parker observed epileptic seizures in 21.6%, and I. Ya. Razdolsky - in 21-22% of brain tumors, mainly with supratentorial localization of the process - with tumors of the frontal, parietal and temporal regions, and less often - with tumors of the subcortical nodes and pituitary course.

Diagnosis of ureteral stones outside colic attacks with the possibility of using modern urological methods of examining patients (plain radiography of the urinary system, excretory and retrograde urography, chromocystoscopy, ureteral catheterization, etc.) is not difficult. However, a rather large number of mistakes made in recognizing this disease during colic makes us pay attention to the diagnosis of ureteral stones and find out the reasons leading to errors in recognizing this painful process.

Lemberg, Siegfried, Strain in 1954 in Geneva at the international congress of obstetricians were the first to report on their biological method for determining the term of birth by cytology of a vaginal smear. Niklisek, Lichtvus, Pundel (1958), Danikhiy (1958), Zhidovski (I960), Miklav (1961) tested the reliability of the indicated biological method in clinical practice and obtained contradictory results.

We had the opportunity to familiarize ourselves with new analgesics presented to us for clinical trials by the V.I. S. Ordzhonikidze - prinadol and lemoran.

We observed 46 children with manifestations of rickets that had not been previously treated.

Of the hereditary abnormalities of leukocytes, the most common is the Pelger form. It is inherited according to a dominant trait and is characterized by the fact that mature neutrophils, and sometimes eosinophils, have a thickened nucleus, often similar in shape to the nuclei of younger cells - metamyelocyte or even myelocyte. But these cells cannot be attributed to methomyelocytes and myelocytes in terms of their structural features - their nuclei are quite mature. The process of condensation of nuclear chromatin in them is over. In this case, segmented neutrophils have only two segments, with three or more segments they are almost never encountered. In other words, with the Pelgerian anomaly, the shape of the nucleus lags behind its structural development - the structure is old, and its shape is young. With poor staining and inexperience of laboratory technicians, these cells are often mistaken for young ones, and the patient is diagnosed with chronic leukemia or left shift.

It is known that children of the first months of life suffer from cytomegaly more often. A detailed and consistent description of it was published by V. Ya-Tsareva (Kazan medical woman 1962, 5).

Currently, the attention of therapists, pediatricians, infectious disease specialists, otorhinolaryngologists and some other specialists is attracted by issues of immunopathology, allergies and autoallergies.

February 4, 1964 marked the 80th anniversary of the death of one of the largest progressive figures in Russian psychiatry of the 19th century - prof. Alexander Ustinovich Frese, whose life and work mainly took place in Kazan. He always combined his scientific research with active practical activity. He was the founder and the first director of the Kazan regional hospital, which began its work on September 1, 1869 and was one of the best psychiatric institutions in Russia at that time. A.U. Frese was the first professor of the Department of Mental Diseases of the Medical Faculty of Kazan University.

Currently, the definition of Rh-belonging is very widespread. In the antenatal clinics of the city, all pregnant women are examined for Rh-affiliation and Rh-negative women are under special supervision; their blood is regularly examined for the presence of specific antiresus antibodies, but still an obstacle in this work is the limited number of standard antiresus serums.

The conference was convened by the Institute of Pediatrics of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and the Allergological Laboratory of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences.

February 15, 1964 in the city of Kuibyshev-region. a symposium on anesthesiology and resuscitation took place. The symposium was attended by doctors, medical workers of the city, a number of regions and republics.