The clinico-genetic characteristics of children with local forms of primary tuberculosis

The authors discuss remote results of choledochoduodenostomy in 105 patients examined clinically, rentgenologically and endoscopically for 1--7 years. Good and excellent remote results were obtained in 87,6% of patients. Poor and staisfactory results were shown by patients with stenosis of anastomosis and recurrent pancreatitis. One of the causes of jondice and cholangitis is an obstruction of the ducts with food masses in patients with anastomosis of less than 0,5 cm size, believed by the authors to be critical.

On the basis of the results provided by clinical follow-up, clinico-epidemiological and clinico-genealogical studies, the authors have reviewed the systematics of the major forms of schizophrenia developed at the Institute of Psychiatry of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences and offer a statistical characteristics of these forms. The authors specifically discussed the questions associated with the characteristics of the syndrome formation and course of slowly progressive (torpid) schizophrenia and the place these forms occupy in the modern for...

A clinico-epidemiological study involved children and adolescents with a history of home abandoning and tramping who live in two administrative districts of a big city. The study was aimed at investigating the prevalence of the dromomania syndrome in the children and adolescents of the given districts, the specification of the nosological and syndromal characteristics of the patients, and eliciting the etiopathogenetic role of various factors (social, communal and biological) in the formation of this syndrome. The findings obtained are indicati...

Changes in peripheral clinico-chemical parameters (packed cell volume (PCV), hemoglobin (HGB), serum glucose, carbamide nitrogen (CN), sodium, uric acid and creatinine) were investigated in mice during the development of acute morphine tolerance. Acute morphine treatment (in drug-naive organism) altered the PCV, HGB, serum glucose and CN levels in a naloxone-reversible manner. Acute tolerance developed in PVC, HGB, sodium and CN values. The data raise the possibility of a relationship between clinico-chemical and pharmacological tolerance.

The paper presented here is a contribution to the debate on the methodological dualism of hermeneutical and nomothetical procedures in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research. Recently, W. Tress has made re-commendations to mediate between both spheres by applying so-called "socio-empirical markers". This concept is criticized. Rather than precipitately mediating between clinical hermeneutics and empirical nomology, a critical differentiation of both methodologies is advocated. The inter-methodological dialog is furthered best by supportin...