Vol 52, No 6 (1971)

In humans, connective tissue emerges and develops from mesenchyme intrauterus, whose soft and dense varieties differ in functional morphology and architectonics. Soft tissues include: reticular tissue of bone marrow and other hematopoietic organs, thin fibrous tissue of mucous membranes (stomach, intestines and other organs), fatty subcutaneous and interorganic tissue (abdominal cavity and other places), adventitial tissue (aorta and other blood vessels, esophagus and ureters, etc.).

We analysed the incidence of myocardial infarction on the basis of hospital records in Ufa over a period of 5 years. The percentage of hospitalised with cardiovascular diseases increased from 26.2 in 1965 to 32.1 in 1969. 55.6% of those hospitalized were patients with atherosclerosis and hypertension. The percentage of hospitalised patients with myocardial infarction increased from 6.5 to 13.9 over a five-year period.

This paper describes the results of a six-year follow-up and bicillin-medication prophylaxis in patients with rheumatism of workers (construction workers, metallurgists), whose work is associated with exposure to adverse meteorological factors (cooling or overheating, exposure to contrasting temperatures). It should be taken into account that the observation was carried out in the Kama region climatic conditions with moderate continental climate, rather cold winter (average temperature in January minus 15°), frequent strong winds, rainy weather, especially in spring-autumn time.

The present report draws a parallel between non-contrast radiological and bronchographic pictures of chronic nonspecific lung diseases with marked clinical manifestations. The work is based on radiological examination of 241 children aged 4 months to 15 years (108 of them from 4 months to 7 years).

We have summarised our experience in the diagnosis and treatment of acute poisoning in the therapeutic department of the 6th City Clinical Hospital. Over the last 3 years, 228 such patients were admitted for treatment. Thirty-three of them were acutely poisoned by chlorophos, 15 by sleeping pills, 13 by acetic acid, 102 by alcohol and 65 by other poisons. The age of the patients varied from 17 to 60 years, mostly 20-30 years old. Three types of poisoning are analysed below: chlorophos, sleeping pills, alcohol.

In acute cholecystitis and cholelithiasis cholecystostomy is often performed for certain indications. The appropriateness of this sparing, organ-preserving, draining and life-saving operation in severe, elderly and old patients with biliary peritonitis and acute liver dysfunction is recognised by many surgeons.

Despite great advances in the development of limb lengthening techniques, the operation still remains one of the most difficult orthopedic interventions. Limb lengthening is particularly difficult in adults, which is why many orthopedists strongly advocate it only in children, believing that even in adolescents it can only be performed on an exceptional basis. For this reason, the material of many modern clinicians is based almost exclusively on children and adolescents.

21 experimental series of Pseudomonas bacillus allergen were obtained (according to the Ando-Werzhikovsky method) in the allergological laboratory of the Kazan Research Institute of Allergology. Biochemical and cultural properties of the strains, harmlessness and sterility of the preparation were checked according to the method generally accepted for bacterial preparations.

The known ring compression tests used in ophthalmology apply pressure to the anterior part of the eye, so the iris-ciris diaphragm must be displaced to the back. All authors use compressors in the form of a continuous ring. This causes blockage of the drainage pathways, and the results depend not so much on the outflow but on the formation of intraocular fluid. The aim of this proposal is to create a method that would allow aqueous outflow of aqueous humour to be investigated with uniform anterior displacement of the iridocorneal diaphragm and a precisely dosed compression load. This creates the conditions for impaired intraocular fluid circulation in the glaucoma-prone eye.

The balance of Na and K salts, and therefore the distribution of water in the body, is regulated by aldosterone, which increases 10-12 and even 20 times in normal pregnancy. According to I. Eskin, the ability of aldosterone to retain Na in tissues is 20-25 times higher than that of deoxycorticosterone. An excessive amount of Na+ can cause latent and visible oedema.

We experimented with inoculating test material from the nasopharynx onto 1 cup of 20% serum agar and half a cup of elective medium with ristomycin and, in parallel, onto enrichment medium. Material was taken with two dry swabs: one was inoculated on nutrient-dense media, the other was submerged in enrichment medium, 0.1% semi-liquid agar containing 20 ml of serum and 0.75 ml of ristomycin solution (20,000 units per ml) in 190 ml of medium.

The present report summarizes the experience of administering 1859 inhalational anesthesia to 1745 orthopaedic and traumatologic patients treated in the Republican Hospital of the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic during the last 10 years (1960-1969). The age of the patients ranged from 2 months to 85 years, 128 patients were older than 50 years.

Over the years, in the observation and treatment of patients with traumatic and postoperative diquorrhoea, it has been observed that the stains remaining on bed linen from pure blood and blood mixed with cerebrospinal fluid are not the same. Stains remaining after nasal or ear secretion of pure blood are characterised by a scarlet colour with clear margins; stains formed after drying of secretions containing blood mixed with cerebrospinal fluid tend to be pink of varying intensity (depending on the percentage of blood to cerebrospinal fluid), from intensely pink to slightly pink, with an even lighter rim around the margins.

While arterial or mixed arterio-venous aneurysms are not uncommon, isolated venous aneurysms are the exception. We found only isolated reports in the national literature, and some authors questioned their existence altogether.

Randu-Osler syndrome is characterised by multiple congenital telangiectases. Here is our observation. G., 6 years old, presented on 24/III 1969 with tumor-like (sacciform) masses in the elbow and knee joints. He had been ill for about 4 years and was treated as an outpatient. Over the last year his condition had deteriorated: he had lost weight, his skin had become pale and there had been subcutaneous haemorrhages.

After gastric resection for peptic ulcer disease more or less pronounced abnormalities in the functional state of the organs and various kinds of metabolism, including mineral one, are registered. However their character is not always the same depending on many reasons among which not the last place is occupied by a method and volume of gastric resection, in one way or another determining the postoperative period.

In 1923, Crohn's described inflammatory changes in the terminal small intestine as a disease in its own right. Since then there have been descriptions in the literature of isolated cases of this disorder, called terminal ileitis, or Crohn's disease.

According to the literature, intra-abdominal bleeding due to rupture of a variceal vein in a uterine myoma is very rare. Я. С. Klenitzky (1962) indicates that about 100 cases of abdominal bleeding due to rupture of a blood vessel in the tumour have been described in the world literature. It is almost always a venous rupture and rarely an arterial rupture.

There were 20 patients in whom we administered a 7% solution of sodium bicarbonate (follow-up period from 1 to 10 months). Fourteen patients had Meniere's disease, four had vestibulopathy and two had cochleo-vestibular syndrome. In 3 of these patients the tympanic cord and tympanic plexus had been previously resected. However, after 6 months to 2.5 years, they relapsed. Eleven people with Meniere's disease had a unilateral lesion and 3 had a bilateral lesion.

The present work summarizes the results of a combined study of 6 parameters of the blood coagulation system and thromboelastography (TEG). Prothrombin index was studied according to the method of Borovskaya, plasma recalcification time - according to the method of Bernerhof and Rock in modification of V. P. Balud,  fibrinogen content in plasma - by R. A. Rutberg, fibrinolytic activity - by R. A. Rutberg and B. A. Kuzin, tolerance to heparin - by modification of V. P. Balud.

We analysed the care of glaucoma patients in Orenburg. We reviewed all glaucoma cases registered from 1965 to 1969. 385 patients were registered during this period and we prepared face cards with a list of questions reflecting health shifts, treatment, regularity of follow-up by a doctor and some other aspects.

Our analysis of data from periodic medical examinations of workers in the synthetic ethanol and polyethylene industries revealed that subjective disorders indicative of a cardiovascular disorder were prominent. The main cause of heart pain was 15.5% of men and 31.7% of women working in the ethanol industry.

We studied the hearing condition of vocational school students learning the apparatus profession in a petrochemical plant, as well as the effectiveness of some noise control measures implemented in the study areas. In the apparatus training programme, 65% of the time is devoted to practice in the workshops of phenol and acetone, ethylene oxide and high-pressure polyethylene production.

To determine the concentration of positive or negative ions in 1 cm3 of air, a Brown electrometer, a stopwatch, an anemometer, a small fan and a thin-walled metal cylinder 5 cm in diameter and 4 cm long, which is fixed to the electrometer measuring electrode. In the middle of the cylinder, a brass grid with a spacing of 1 mm between the strands is fitted.

The authors have attempted, on the basis of clinical observations of patients with chronic cholecystitis and biliary dyskinesia, as well as experimental data, to clarify the role and importance of the allergic component in the pathogenesis of these diseases, to study the features of their clinical course in connection with allergy, and to recommend some diagnostic techniques to facilitate the recognition of allergic forms of chronic cholecystitis.

The programme report of Academician A.A. Pokrovsky outlined the current concepts of the theory of balanced nutrition, further developed the concept of "rules of correspondence" of the enzyme relationships of the body to the chemical structures of the food and indicated the possible applications of the theory of balanced nutrition. The reports in the plenary session and the sections of biochemistry, physiology, hygiene of nutrition, therapeutic and children's nutrition, as well as the published proceedings of the concepts of Academician A.A. Pokrovsky, gave concrete confirmation.