Vol 67, No 2 (1986)

The urgency of this problem is extremely high and is caused by the variety and strength of the negative influence of alcohol consumption both on the destinies of individuals and on the development of our society as a whole, which is confirmed by the results of scientific research. For example, it has been established that the mortality rate among alcoholics is 2-4 times higher than among the general population. Up to 50% of fatal traffic accidents are caused by alcoholic beverages. The morbidity rate among men who abuse alcohol is 1.5 times higher than among the entire male population.

Soviet cardiac surgeons have accumulated considerable experience in valve replacement for acquired heart defects. Such surgeries are successfully used for insufficiency and stenosis of mitral and aortic valves. One of the severe complications arising in the postoperative period is bacterial endocarditis of artificial valves, which occurs in 2-13% of patients with implanted valves.

Chronic lymphatic leukemia is second only to acute leukemia in the frequency of infectious complications. In most cases, severe infectious complications are the cause of death in these patients. Modern chemotherapy makes it possible to preserve the ability to work and the life expectancy of patients for a long time. However, the negative effect of cytostatic drugs on the already altered immune system leads to an even greater suppression of immunity and an increase in the number of infectious complications. The search for new ways to combat infections has shown the advisability of long-term outpatient treatment with antibacterial drugs.

We analyzed long-term outcomes of the treatment of 217 patients (men - 126, women - 91), who underwent radical operations for stomach cancer in the period of 1972 till 1976. 14 patients were under 39, 52 - from 40 to 49, 50 to 59 - 52, 60 to 69 - 80, over 70 years old - 19. The youngest patient was 28 years old and the oldest - 76 years old. Most patients (185) were operated on at stage III of the disease, stage II was diagnosed in 27 patients, and stage IV - in 5 patients.

Pierre Robin syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by congenital facial malformations: microretrognathia, cleft soft or hard palate, microglossia, glossoptosis. In severe cases after birth, there is a threat of asphyxia of the newborn. The phenomena of glossoptosis usually diminish by 4 weeks of age.

We studied deep sensitivity in 89 patients with various lumbar osteochondrosis syndromes, including nonradicular ones, aged 20 to 56 years and in 26 healthy subjects aged 23 to 50 years. For quantitative assessment of deep sensitivity, we used the technique of studying the time of simple motor reaction (MR) to passive finger movement proposed by A.I. Yakovlev.

We analyzed 17 risk factors for the prognosis of glaucoma progression in 42 eyes. Glaucoma stage I was detected in 15 eyes, II in 16 eyes, III in 11 eyes; IV (last) glaucoma stage was not considered, as further disease progression was impossible. The average age of the patients was 63.0 ±1.2 years. The follow-up period was from 6 months to 3 years.

A genetic variant of immunodeficiency with a large thymus is now known, but the proportion of primary immunodeficiencies is small. Such immunodeficiency variants determine the physician's tactics for correction of a specific immune defect, usually using replacement therapy (by bone marrow transplantation, thymus transplantation, or injection of its hormones).

There are 840 children registered at the pediatric area, including 66 children under one year of age and 140 "unorganized" children. In the course of the clinical examination, the health status of children was studied according to the data of preventive examinations, as well as materials of the district therapist on the health status of the family.

We studied the process of vitamin B₁₂ absorption in 184 patients with various diseases of the digestive system. 57 patients suffered from chronic atrophic gastritis, 42 - cirrhosis of the liver, 28 - chronic hepatitis; 12 patients underwent small bowel resection (more than 1 m), 45 - gastric resections of various types. The control group consisted of <25 healthy individuals aged 22 to 47 years.

Among the complications associated with the presence of Meckel's diverticulum, its impingement in an inguinal hernia is rare. This circumstance and difficulty of diagnosis prompted us to share our observation.

To clarify the peculiarities of the course of labor, the postpartum period, and the condition of newborns, we analyzed 102 labor histories of women whose pregnancies were complicated by the threat of termination in different terms. Morphological examination of the placenta was performed concurrently in these women in labor. The age of the examined women ranged from 18 to 35 years.

The present work was undertaken to obtain comprehensive information on arteriolovenular anastomoses in the embryonic stage of development. The study was performed on 240 cadavers of human embryos and fetuses from 6.5 weeks of intrauterine development to the neonatal period using conventional injectable and noninjectable angiological and histological methods.

The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of protein and albumin for the treatment of some forms of sexual disorders in men with predominant lesions of the neurohumoral component with delayed pubertal development, age involution, idiopathic forms, diencephalic impotence, lesions of the prostate-testicular complex.

We studied the effect of acute chlorophos poisoning on the state of the adenyl system, which is the final and main indicator of all bioenergetic processes.

The study of the actual nutrition of the population, its national traditions is the most important task of the science of nutrition. In the special literature, these issues are most often considered in relation to organized contingents of the population, while the actual nutrition of the unorganized population due to the complexity of organizational measures and expeditionary conditions of work still remains little researched.

The relevance of the issues of balneology is determined by the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions "On measures for further improvement of sanatorium treatment and recreation of workers and the development of a network of health resorts of trade unions". High true prevalence of diabetes mellitus (up to 2.5%-4%) dictates the necessity of involving medical service of sanatoriums and preventive clinics in solving the main task of practical diabetology - in discovering the diabetic patients in initial stages of disease, in organizing proper treatment and rehabilitation of patients, in preventing diabetes mellitus.

December 1985 was the 60th birthday and 36 years of medical, scientific, pedagogical and social activity of the RSFSR Honored Doctor, Honored Scientist of the Udmurt ASSR, Board Member of All-Union and All-Russian Scientific Societies of Cardiologists, Head of the Department of Internal Medicine № 1 of the Ustinov State Medical Institute decorated with the Order of Friendship of Peoples, Professor Lev Alexandrovich Leschinsky.

In February 1986, famous cardiologist, Head of Propaedeutics Department of Internal Diseases of Kazan Medical Institute named after S.V. Kurashov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Yakov Mikhaylovich Miloslavsky celebrated his 60th birthday and 38 years of his medical and scientific-pedagogical activity.