MEDITSINA PUBLISHERS
CATALOGUE
2002

 

ANESTHESIOLOGY & INTENSIVE CARE

 

Intensive care/V.D. Malyshev, I.V. Vedenina, Kh.T. Omarov, et al. Ed. by V.D. Malyshev
548 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04617-7

  This manual presents the treatment of acute syndromes in surgical and therapeutic patients. The etiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture, and management of acute respiratory and cardiovascular failure, shock, systemic inflammatory reaction and polyorgan failure in frequent diseases are described. Special attention is paid to invasive and noninvasive monitoring, methods of respiratory and cardiovascular support, algorithms of treatment of acute conditions and heart arrest. Drugs and infusion media are characterized and therapeutic and diagnostic methods obligatory for each physician working in intensive care wards are presented.
  Addressed to surgeons, anesthesiologists, rheumatologists, therapists.

 

Critical states. Diagnosis and treatment Handbook for Physicians/ed. Ye.I. Chazov
704 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04156-6

  Complited by symptom-syndrome principle, the book covers all branches of medicine (therapy, surgery, traumatology, pediatrics, gynecology, etc.) and conditions which may need critical care. Much prominence is given to differential diagnosis and methods of critical care. Recommendations are presented on futher treatment of some diseases. Information is presented on drugs, using in critical care and organization of emergency service.
  Intended for physicians of all specializations.

 

Fomina I.G.
Urgent therapy in cardiology
256 p.
ISBN 5-225-04743-2

  This manual contains current approaches to diagnosis and management of critical states and life-treating complications in different cardiovascular diseases. Algorithms and schemes of differential diagnosis of major cardiovascular symptoms and syndromes (acute chest pain, dyspnea, lung edema) are given both in text forms and tables. Principles of evaluation of heart rhythm and conduction disturbances are shown together with antiarrhythmic therapeutic strategies. Major indications, contraindications to the main cardiovascular drug classes are given. The book suggests the best available methods of management of cardiovascular patient with the suspected acute myocardial infarction, uncontrolled arterial hypertension, cardiac tamponade, atrial fibrillation and cardiac arrest in both in the outpatient department and in the intensive care unit of the specialized center.
  The book is addressed to general practitioners, cardiologists, doctors, working in the intensive care departments and emergency medicine, as well as to the medical students.

 

BIOCHEMISTRY

T. T. Berezov, B. F. Korovkin
Biological Chemistry
704 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-02709-1

  The third version of this book (the second was issued in 1990) briefly presents the new data and facts on the biogenesis of the main classes of organic substances in humans and animals, new data on carbohydrate and lipid chemistry; medical enzymology section is enlarged.
  New chapter "Biological Membranes and Bioenergetics" presents current concepts of biological membrane structure, energy formation and transformation in biological systems.

 

CLINICAL LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS

 

G. I. Nazarenko and A. A. Kishkun
Regulating the Quality of Laboratory Studies
360 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04610-X

  Based on their own experience, the authors present the fundamentals of the modern concept of regulating the quality of laboratory studies. The quality of laboratory studies is for the first time regarded within the framework of medical technological processes planning. Persuasively and clearly the authors describe the components of the technological chain leading to adequate results of analysis, which are fully within the competence of therapists. This book supplements a previous handbook "Clinical Evaluation of Laboratory Findings". A practitioner specialized in any field will find clinically valuable information here. This book presents basic requirements to collection of the material for laboratory analysis, describes the specific features of sample preparation, regulates the approaches to proper making the applications for investigations.
  Addressed to laboratory physicians and clinicians.

 

DENTISTS

 

Agapov V.S., Tarasenko S.V., Trukhina G.M., Lakshin A.M
Intrahospital infection in surgical dentistry
256 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04132-9

  The book contains information on etiology, prevention and treatment of intrahospital infections in surgical dentistry; presents the results of investigation on preventive measures against pyoinflammatory complications after operations and maxillofacial traumas; new techniques of general and local treatment of odontogenic phlegmons preventing their course with complications; shows the role of intrahospital environment in mechanism of intrahospital infection initiation; effective measures of dysinfection of intrahospital environment in maxillofacial hospital.
  Itnended for dentists, interns, hospital epidemiologists of dental clinics.

 

Puzin M.N., Vyazmin A.Ya.
Painful dysfunction of the temporomandibular joint
160 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04731-9

  This book presents information essential for recognition and treatment ofpainful dysfunction of the temporomandibular joint, which is responsible (according to the authors’ data) for up to 80% of articular diseases and is associated with intensive pain. The book is a result of close cooperation and many-year experience gained by representatives of different professions (dentist, neuropathologist, and biochemist) in studies of painful facial syndromes. Due to close cooperation the authors showed the place and role of local and common disorders in the etiology and pathogenesis of this severe disease. Anatomy, clinical picture, methods of diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and modern methods of treatment are presented.
  Addressed to dentists, neuropathologists, neurosurgeons, and physicians of allied professions.

 

DERMATOLOGY

 

Skin Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections. Training Aid.
Ed. Yu. S. Butov.
400 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-295-04699-1

  This book presents the fundamental data on skin diseases in newborns, infections in adults, allergic dermatoses and autoimmune diseases involving connective and epithelial tissue. Hereditary dermatoses and developmental defects, lymphoproliferative diseases and tumors of the skin, sexually transmitted infections are described.
  Addressed to dermatologists, venereologists, pediatricians, and therapists.

 

DIAGNOSTICS

 

V. V. Shchetinin and N. F. Beresten
Cardiocompatible Dopplerography
240 pp., ill
ISBN 5-225-04358-5

  This monograph presents a new trend in ultrasonic diagnosis: cardiocompatible dopplerography. The problem of evaluation of blood flow in the vessels is for the first time regarded in correlation with the variant of central hemodynamics. Venous portocaval circulation and arterial flow to the liver are regarded from this viewpoint. New technologies of dopplerosonography helped better evaluate the variants of collateral circulation in heart failure and diffuse involvement of the liver with portal hypertension. New diagnostic dopplerosonography indexes are suggested as prognostic predictors of liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension, and heart failure. Cardiocompatible dopplerosonography is a valuable method for dynamic assessment of the status of transplanted liver and other organs.
  Addressed to specialists in ultrasonic, functional, and radiodiagnosis, angiology, hepatology, and transplantology.

 

DIETETICS

 

Handbook of dietetics/ed. by V.A. Tutelyan, M.A. Samsonov
544 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04723-8

  The third version of this handbook (the first appeared in 1992) was revised with consideration for readers’ comments and latest progress in the science of nutrition. New data were added, concerning vegetarian diets, diets for patients exposed to radiation or living in regions exposed to radiation; a new section deals with bioactive food additives. Seven-day menus were revised with consideration for the new list of dishes of rational and therapeutic nutrition. The supplement “Recipes of dietetic dishes” was essentially extended and adapted to the new list published in 1995-1996. Mechanisms of therapeutic effect of food are discussed with due regard of recent progress in the science of nutrition and allied sciences.
  Addressed to dietitians, therapists, surgeons, professors of higher medical schools and colleges.

 

Tutelyan V.A., Popova T.S.
New strategies in dietetic treatment
144 p.
ISBN 5-225-04758-0

  This monograph presents the theoretical basis and practical aspects of a new trend in dietetic treatment, consisting in optimization of nutritive support by using a new class of bioactive additives: nutriceutics and pre- and probiotics. The authors present the modern aspects in the concept of optimal nutrition, which suggests obligatory supply of the necessary macro- and micronutrients and essential non-alimentary components of food to the organism. Positive therapeutic effect of antioxidants, specific amino acid and lipid nutrients, alimentary fibers, pre- and probiotics in therapy and prevention of some diseases is discussed. Special attention is paid to the use of nutriceutics (glutamine, arginin, omega-3 fatty acids) for correction of immune status and improvement of the defense potential in some diseases and injuries.
  The monograph is addressed to specialists in dietotherapy, surgeons, therapists, intensive care specialists, gastroenterologists, and all specialists in dietetics. It can be interesting to public at large, interested in biological additives.

 

ECOLOGY

 

Guidelines on environmental radioactivity control.
Ed. by I.A. Sobolev, E.N. Belyaev
432 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04167-1

  The book covers issues of setting up control over environmental radionuclide contamination, analyses methods of such control and relevant legal sanitary documents. Recommendations are given on optimization of radiation control and establishment of data bank on various environmental subjects.
Intended for ecologists, hygienists, physicists, radiochemists and other specialists in the field of environmental protection.

 

ENDOCRINOLOGY

M. I. Balabolkin, E. M. Klebanova, and V. M. Kreminskaya
Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Endocrine Diseases
752 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04370-4

  This manual presents information on the latest advances in experimental and clinical endocrinology, including data on diseases of the pituitary, adrenals, thyroid, pancreas, parathyroid, and sexual glands. The results of molecular genetic studies are presented, which altered our notions on the pathogenesis and led to revision of the traditional classifications of some diseases. Each section of the manual presents the pathogenesis and classification based on modern data and describes the differential diagnosis and choice of the optimal treatment. The manual includes new chapters and sections, heretofore absent in manuals of clinical endocrinology (diseases caused by disorders in the gastrointestinal tract hormone secretion, hypoglycemia and excessive body weight syndromes, hyperosmolar and hypoosmolar syndromes, etc.). Each section of the manual discusses the problems of therapy and offers recommendations on optimal treatment.
  Addressed to endocrinologists, physicians of wide profile, teachers of departments for medical upgrading, and endocrinology chairs of higher medical institutions.

 

Golikov P.P.
Receptor mechanisms of antiglucocorticoid effect in emergency
312 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04708-4

  Mechanisms of hormonal regulation of metabolism in critical states are described. Modern concepts on molecular regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor function are summed up. Data on activation and inhibition of the functions of types II and III glucocorticoid receptors by various drugs are presented. Relationship between glucocorticoid receptor function and lipid peroxidation processes and nitrogen oxide regulatory system is demonstrated. The role and prospects of studying the glucocorticoid receptor mechanisms in the pathogenesis of various diseases are discussed. Special attention is paid to the problem of glucocorticoid receptor regulation of the levels of angiotensin-converting enzyme and angiotensin II. Data on correlation between glucocorticoid receptor function and treatment efficiency and disease prognosis are presented. The concept of receptor mechanisms of antiglucocorticoid effects of nonsteroid antiglucocorticoids is offered.
  Addressed to endocrinologists, biochemists, pathophysiologists, pharmacologists.

 

ENDOSCOPY

Zablodsky A.N.
Gastrointestinal endoscopy in children
288 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04623-1

  Indications and contraindications to gastrointestinal endoscopy in children are defined, endoscopic symptomatology of diseases of the upper portion of the gastrointestinal tract is described in accordance with the international terms. Foreign publications on chromoendoscopic diagnosis are reviewed and authors’ results obtained with the use of vital stains in children are presented. The philosophy of visual chromoendoscopic differential diagnosis of congenital and acquired gastrointestinal diseases in children is presented. Methodology and devices for such examinations are described. Problems in decontamination of endoscopes are discussed. Errors, hazards, and complications of endoscopic manipulations and measures preventing them are analyzed. Safety measures and measures for staff protection are presented. Problems of deontology in pediatric endoscopic service are discussed.
  Addressed to endoscopists, pediatricians, gastroenterologists, and surgeons.

 

EPIDEMIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

 

Pathomorphology of anthrax
N.V. litusov, N.T. Vasilyev, P.G. Vasilyev et al. Ed. by P.N. Burgasov
240 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04146-9

  The book outlines present-day views on pathogenesis of human and animal anthrax. An original pathogenetic classification of anthrax is presented. Clinico-pathomorphological manifestations of anthrax in man, cattle and test animals are described with reference to the infection atrium and features of the causative agent.
  The book is intended for pathologists, epidemiologists, clinical specialists in infections, anthrax researchers.

 

GENERAL PROBLEMS

 

Biomedical Ethics. Book III / Ed. by V. I. Pokrovskii and Yu. M. Lopukhin
240 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04357-7

  Discusses the problems of ethics in public health, biomedical science, genetics (cloning, genetic testing, etc.), psychiatry, reanimatology, pathology, obstetrics, etc. Pays special attention to ethical problems of experiments on humans, particularly testing of new drugs.
  Addressed to medical public at large.

 

V. A. Medik, N. M. Pilnik, V. K. Yuryev
Sanitary Loss in XXth Century Wars
240 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04351-8

  This monograph presents a comprehensive evaluation of the efficiency of medical care rendered to wounded subjects with gunshot wounds and injuries at different stages of medical evacuation during wars and war conflicts of the XXth century: Great Patriotic War, war actions in Afghanistan, and antiterroristic operation in the Chechen Republic. Based on expert evaluation of more than 43,000 case histories, the authors investigate and analyze the theoretical, methodological, and organization principles of assessing medical care efficiency; study the parameters and criteria for evaluating the medical efficiency of therapeutic and evacuation measures; offer their own program of total systems analysis and evaluation of the efficiency of surgical care of wounded subjects and patients at different stages of medical evacuation; validate the classification of parameters and criteria of efficiency of medical care; evaluate the efficiency of medical care to subjects with gunshot wounds and injuries during the Great Patriotic War, war actions in Afghanistan and Chechen Republic; compare the efficiency of medical care rendered to wounded subjects and patients during wars and war conflicts of the XXth century; and validate the organization principles of surgical care at different stages of medical evacuation.
  The monograph is addressed to military physicians, specialists in social medicine and public health organization. It will attract special interest of students, resident physicians, and postgraduate medical students.

 

M. B. Slavin
Practical Systemic Simulation in Medicine
168 pp, ill.
ISBN 5-225-04726-2

  Systemic simulation is a modern effective method for description and investigation of biomedical systems. Methodological bases of systemic simulation in medicine are presented in plain terms on demonstrative examples. The entire process of creating a model is presented in detail in special chapters. The structure of each model is logically based and its creation is described step-by-step. The author used only the concepts, terms, and definitions clear to medics.
  Addressed to medical students and physicians trained at upgrading courses.

 

GENERAL THERAPY

 

Belousov A.S., Vodolagin V.D., Zhakov V.P.
Diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment of digestive diseases
424 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04504-9

  This books briefly presents the definitions, classifications, diagnostic algorithms, diagnostic and differentially diagnostic criteria, and treatment of digestive diseases. It provides currently available diagnostic techniques. The anatomy and physiology of some digestive organs and the pathology of some syndromes are outlined. Each chapter gives clinical notes whose consideration facilitates the differential diagnosis of the diseases.
  Readership: therapeutists, gastroenterologists.

 

E. I. Sokolov
Diabetic Heart
416 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04138-8

  The relationship between myocardial involvement, metabolic shifts, and atherosclerosis development in patients with diabetes mellitus is analyzed. Special attention is paid to analysis of morphological changes in the myocardium, caused by disorders in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, development of insulin resistance and X syndrome. Based on the clinical data, the author demonstrates the relationship between obesity, hyperinsulinemia, and metabolic changes (increased levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL, VLDL, free fatty acids and decreased level of HDL). Structural and functional changes in the myocardium in diabetes mellitus clearly correlate with metabolic changes and development of X syndrome. Addition of plasmapheresis to the treatment of diabetics is fairly effective.
  This book is addressed to clinicists, both endocrinologists and cardiologists, as well as to pathophysiologists and biochemists.

 

GENETICS

 

Hereditary diseases in human populations/ed. by E.K. Ginter
304 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04172-8

  The book summarizes the results of a comprehensive population and medicogenetic study of population of the Mary El Republic. How to investigate genetic structure of the population using demographic, genetic approaches, detection of hereditary diseases in the population is described. It is shown how relationships are established between peculiarities of genetic structure of the population and behavior of hereditary diseases and their genes in this population. Of special interest is the section with clinicogenealogical analysis of a great variety of inherited diseases.
  Intended for specialists in medical and population genetics, physicians, health service managers.

 

HEMATOLOGY

 

Zakharov Yu.M., Rassokhin A.G.
Erythroblastic island
280 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04574-X

  The authors investigated functions of erythroblastic islands of the bone marrow and propose these islands as the basis for studying erythropoiesis in man and animals. Compared to conventional hematological methods, the above ones are highly informative in assessment of functional conditions of erythropoiesis. The study of erythropoiesis in erythroblastic islands under stimulation and inhibition, in experimental erythron damage, in human blood diseases enables the authors to formulate conceptions on fundamental grounds of erythropoiesis regulation on the basis of cell-cell and humoral cell mechanisms in health, in activation of erythropoiesis and its suppression.
  Intended for hematologists, physiologists, pathophysiologists, cytologists, pathomorphologists, radiologists, teachers, students of medicine and biology.

 

LABOUR HYGIENE

 

Kataeva V.A.
Labor and health of a dentist
208 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04152-3

  This book reviews Russian and foreign reports and presents the results of more than 30-year studies of labor hygiene of dentists, carried out at Department of Hygiene of MSMSU. Hygienic evaluation of working conditions of dentists is made.
  Data on the health status and disease incidence among dentists are presented for the first time.
  The book is addressed to dentists, hygienists, specialists in occupational diseases, public health organizers, and medical students.

 

MICROBIOLOGY

 

Handbook for Practical Studies of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
Ed. V. V. Tets.
352 pp, ill.
ISBN 5-225-04644-4

  This is the second version of "Manual for Laboratory Studies of Medical Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology" (Moscow, Meditsina Publishers, 1993); all sections have been completely revised by Prof. V. V. Tets, Prof. I. S. Freidlin, and Ass. Prof. E. N. Schmidt.
The manual is recommended for individual preparation to practical studies. It presents the common information about methods for studies of bacteria. Methods of sterilization, disinfection, and evaluation of antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria are described. Fundamentals of applied immunology are presented. Modern methods for the diagnosis of many infections are described.
  Addressed to higher medical students.

 

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

 

Poletaev A.B., Morozov S.G., Kovalev I.E.
Regulatory metasystem (immunoneuroendocrine regulation of homeostasis)
168 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04589-8

  The authors offer insights into different-level integration of the living systems and likely mechanisms of its realization; analyze expected principles and some mechanisms underlying functional contingency of the nervous, immune and endocrine systems forming an integral regulatory metasystem as the leading component of regulation and adaptation of homeostasis of the higher organisms in health and disease; discuss an essential role of regulatory authoantibodies; provide grounds for the conception on the functional system of immunochemical homeostasis basing on the interlink between the P-450 cytochrome enzyme system and the immunity system. The functional system of immunochemical homeostasis is considered as illustration (and a general principle) of association of molecular and systemic level of homeostatic organization within a multicellular organism.
  Readership: molecular biologists, immunologists, biological and medical students and interns.

 

NEUROLOGY & PSYCHIATRICS

 

Kryzhanovsky G.N., Karaban I.N., Magayeva S.V., Kucheryanu V.G., Karaban N.V.
Parkinson’s disease: etiology, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, prevention
336 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04135-3

  This monograph explores the modern state of research and treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The principles and methods of diagnosis at preclinical and initial stages of disease and differential diagnosis with Parkinson-like syndromes of other nosological entities are pressented. Pathophysiological, neurochemical, and neuroimmunopathological mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis, natural mechanisms of neuronal defense and restitution, and mechanisms of compensation of disturbed functions are described. An original concept of complex pathogenetic therapy with minimum drug doses and the minimum risk of severe side effects is formulated.
  Addressed to neurologists, psychiatrists, gerontologists, pathophysiologists, and neurobiologists.

 

Nervous Diseases/Ed. by M. N. Puzin
672 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04719-X

  This training aid presents modern data on general and special clinical neurology essential for the physician for proper orientation in the problems of neurology. Special attention is paid to the diagnosis and treatment of nervous diseases, modern methods of examination, prevention, and problems of medical labor expert evaluation.
  For medical upgrading system.

 

OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY

 

Kulakov V.I., Murashko L.Ye.
Premature delivery
176 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04133-7

  Presents new data on the diagnosis and management of spontaneous premature delivery, threatened premature delivery, and dry labor. These data will help the physician detect the signs which confirm the diagnosis of premature delivery at weeks 28-37 of gestation and evaluate concomitant factors and diseases, fetal state, carry out accessory investigations, including ultrasonic examination, and start drug therapy. Treatment with tocolytic drugs often helps essentially delay the delivery and improve the prognosis for the newborn.
  A special section is devoted to fetal and neonatal diseases. Results of observations of premature infants with low gestation age and wieght are presented. Methods for examination of women with a history of recurrent spontaneous abortions at late terms are listed.
  Addressed to obstetricians, gynecologists, neonatologists, and general practitioners.

 

OPHTALMOLOGY

 

E. S. Avetisov
Myopia
288 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-02764-4

  The second version of the book offers new data concerning all aspects of the problem of myopia. Data on the regularities of refractogenesis, mechanism of myopia and its pathophysiological and clinical features are summarized. Two forms of myopia, differing by origin, course, and outcomes, are clearly distinguished. New data on scleral metabolism and biophysical characteristics in progressive myopia are presented. Special attention is paid to validation and detailed description of numerous measures for the treatment and prevention of myopia.
  Addressed to ophthalmologists.

 

Ophthalmooncology Manual for Physicians/A.F. Brovkina, V.V. Valsky, G.A. Gusev, et al. Ed. by A.F. Brovkina
424 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04157-4

  Besed on their own experience and published data, in part 1 the authors describe examinations of patients of ocular tumors, including the methods used in common oncology. Part 2 deals with clinical features and morphogenesis of tumors of the organ of vision. Problems in diagnosis and differential diagnosis are discussed and modern methods of treatment are described.
Addressed to ophthalmologists, oncologists, neurosurgeons, and otorhinolaryngologists.

 

PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY

G. G. Avtandilov
Fundamentals of Quantitative Anatomical Pathology
240 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04151-5

  The philosophy of creation of representative groups and their morphometrical studies at all levels of human body structure is presented in this book with consideration for the requirements of systemic morphometry. Basic methods of mathematical processing of the results of measurements are described in brief. Diagnostic potentialities of anthropometry, organometry, histometry, cytometry, karyometry, ploidometry, ultrastructural measurements, and microspectrophotometry in practical pathology are described.
  Addressed to resident physicians, postgraduate medical students, pathologists, forensic medics, oncologists, experimental pathologists, and biologists.

 

M. A. Paltsev, N. M. Anichkov, and M. G. Rybakova
Manual of Practical Studies of Pathology
896 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04349-6

  This manual supplements the textbook "Pathology" by M. A. Paltsev and N. M. Anichkov (Moscow, Meditsina Publishers, 2001) and corresponds to the curriculum in pathology for medical students approved in 2001. The number of chapters and their contents on the whole correspond to the contents of the textbook. The authors believe that the plan and technological support of the studies as well as tests and situation tasks will serve as the basis for organization of studies at chairs of pathology.
  Addressed to medical students.

 

M. A. Paltsev, V. L. Kovalenko, and N. M. Anichkov
Manual of Biopsy and Section
256 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04359-X

  This manual presents data which will help master the technique of autopsy, formulate a pathoanatomical diagnosis, use the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Health-Related Problems, and charting medical certificates of death. The supplement to the manual presents the basic morphometrical data essential for writing the protocol of autopsy, specimens of pathological diagnosis, and tests and situation tasks for autocontrol.
  Addressed to medical students.

 

Saltykov B.B., Paukov V.S.
Diabetic microandiopathy
240 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04150-7

  This book presents classification, pathogenesis, morphological diagnosis, and methods for the treatment of diabetic microangiopathy. Changes in arterioles and capillaries at different stages of capillary involvement are described and the relationship between their development and metabolic, hormonal, genetic, rheological, and other factors is analyzed. The role of immune, primarily immunocomplex mechanisms in damage to the microcirculatory system is demonstrated and the composition of immune complexes is deciphered. The authors prove that diabetic microangiopathy is an obligatory component in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus. The significance of skin biopsy for early diagnosis and specific treatment of microangiopathy starting from the moment of its manifestation is emphasized. The relationship between microvessel damage and clinical features of diabetes mellitus is proven mathematically.
  Addressed to pathologists, endocrinologists, therapists, pediatricians.

 

PHITOTHERAPY

 

Chikov P.S.
Medicinal plants
496 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04608-8

  The 4th edition (the third was published in 1997) includes the description of 10 new herbs. The section “Utilization of herbs in medicine” is widely extended providing the results of the latest research and practical experience.
  Intended for physicians, pharmacologists, biologists, teachers and students of medical and other colleges and readers interested in herbs and its correct use.

 

PHYSIOLOGY

 

Handbook for Practical Studies of Physiology/Ed. by K. V. Sudakov, A. V. Kotov, and T. N. Loseva
704 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04647-9

  This handbook presents training tasks in physiology (speciality 040100, 040600, 040400, etc.) for laboratory work in the auditorium and for independent studies. Special attention is paid to studies of organ and tissue macro- and microstructure, noninvasive examinations, and fundamentals of functional diagnosis, which renders the clinical approach to the tasks. Training tasks in the form of schemes, tables, figures, curves, etc. are offered. New tasks have been developed for some topics. Classical physiological experiments which can be performed on small and medium-sized laboratory animals are described in new modifications with due consideration for specific features and actual potentialities of students' practical work.
  This handbook includes a glossary of physiological terms and a control training test with reference answers.
  Addressed to medical students; can be used by students of biological and psychological-pedagogical faculties of Universities and medical colleges.

 

Pyatnitskaya I.N., Naidenova N.G.
Adolescent addictology
256 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04739-4

  The directory deals with a pressing today’s problem — adolescent drug abuse. New forms of drug addiction are described. Leading symptoms of drug abuse in adolescents are detailed, clinical features and course variants are characterized. Principles of psychopharmacological treatment, preventive measures, psychotherapeutic approaches to therapy are outlined.
  Intended for physicians, psychiatrists, drug addiction specialists, adolescent physicians.

 

PSYCHOLOGY

 

Yu. G. Tyulpin
Mental Disorders
400 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04153-1

  This manual presents the basic data on mental disorders and problems of care of mental patients. Special attention is paid to description of disorders causing suffering of the patients and decreasing their adaptation. Methods of making nurse's diagnosis and planning the care and rehabilitation of patients are described. Possible side effects of drug therapy are described in detail. Special chapters describe organization of psychiatric service, psychological aspects of relationships between mental patients and medical workers, specific features of mental disorders in children, somatic manifestations of mental diseases, and urgent care in mental diseases.
  Addressed to nurses, medical psychologists, and specialists in rehabilitation. This manual will be particularly useful for students of faculties of higher education of nurses.

 

ROENTGENOLOGY

Fundamentals of X-Ray Diagnostic Technology
Ed. N. N. Blinov
392 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04638-X

  Describes the physical base and specific features of the function of x-ray diagnostic devices, formulates the fundamentals of comprehensive approach to equipment of an x-ray diagnosis department. Presents a rational complex of the basic x-ray diagnostic equipment with consideration for the profile and number of patients to be examined. Describes accessory devices and attachments to instruments. Discusses variants of equipment complexes for typical institutions. Pays special attention to digital methods of roentgenography and selection of physical technological conditions of x-ray diagnosis.
  Addressed to medical students of higher school.

 

Gorshkov S.Z., Musalatov Kh.A.
Elephantiasis of the limbs and external denitals
208 pp., ill.: [2] p. Ill.
ISBN 5-225-04727-0

  The second version of the monograph (the first appeared in 1972) discusses the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture, and treatment of elephantiasis of the limbs and external genitals of man. Special attention is paid to the definition of the notion, classification, and terms. Results of pathohistological studies, data on the blood clotting status and adrenocortical function are presented. The fundamentals of differential diagnosis of diseases similar to the true sporadic elephantiasis of the limbs (pseudoelephantiasis) are presented. Based on their own findings and published data, the authors present the modern approaches to the treatment of some forms of elephantiasis. The data on immediate and remote results of treatment are particularly interesting, as the authors observed 418 patients with elephantiasis.
  Addressed to surgeons, roentgenologists, and physicians at large.

 

Vasilenko I.Ya., Osipov V.A.
Metabolism kinetics and biological effects of radioactive carbon
128 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04582-0

  This monograph sums up experimental data on the sources of 14C, nuclide migration in biosphere, its metabolism and biological effects, including the genetic effects, and the effects of physical and chemical factors on metabolism and biological effects of 14C. The nazards of the nuclide accumulation in biosphere are evaluated with consideration for prospects in development of atomic industry.
  Addressed to radiation hygienists, radiotoxicologists, radiation control specialists.

 

SURGERY

 

Chebyshev N.V., Strelyaeva A.V., Malenkov A.G., Sadykov V.M., Islambekov E.S.
Hydatid diseases of thoracic organs
416 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04725-4

  This monograph is a fundamental research of hydatid disease of the thoracic organs. It presents the results of clinical and experimental studies carried out by the authors, representatives of two generations, during 40 years (1960-2000). Reports published in the world and available in the Internet in recent years (1996-2001) are reviewed. Drugs todicamp and cheblin-SK-1 were used in the treatment of patients for the first time. This book can be used as a reference when preparing theses of candidates and doctors of biomedical sciences.
  Addressed to surgeons, therapists, epidemiologists, parasitologists, and biologists.

 

V. V. Krylov, V. V. Tkachev, G. F. Dobrovolsky
Contralateral Surgery of Brain Aneurysms
192 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04134-5

  This monograph describes the surgical accesses used in surgery for brain aneurysms. Microsurgical anatomy of the anterior compartment of the arterial circle of the brain and stages of aneurysm microsurgery are presented. Special attention is paid to a new trend in microneurosurgery: contralateral access to aneurysms of the basis cerebri vessels.
  Addressed to neurosurgeons, microsurgeons, and anatomists.

 

Nazarenko G.I., Sugurova I.Yu., Glyantsev S.P.
Wound. Dressing. Patient. Modern medical technologies
472 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04700-9

  The book contains short historical information and up-to-date knowledge about origin and evolution of wound management with dressings. Authors examined the basic anatomic, physiologic and pathologic aspects of wound ethiology, pathway, clinic and repair; presented definitions and classifications of wound and dressing; described more than 600 traditional and modern dressings, their main functions, tendencies of future evolution and modern technologies of wound management beneath dressing; pointed general principles of examination and management of patients with acute and chronic wounds; indicated to non-solution questions and outlined to perspectives of the problem.
  For surgeons, therapists and wound care nurses, and specialists in disaster medicine and wound care.

 

Cherkes-Zade D.I., Kamenev Yu.F.
Surgery on the foot
328 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04158-2

  The second version of this monograph (the first was issued in 1995) sums up the authors’ experience and published data on the diagnosis and treatment of the most serious and incident injuries and diseases of soles. The general part presents the anatomy, physiology, and biomechanical features of the soles, describes methods of examination and diagnosis of injuries and diseases. The specific part discusses problems in treatment of various injuries of soles and new trends in treatment. Special attention is paid to diseases of the soles. The second version of the book contains new data on diagnosis and treatment of injuries and diseases of the soles.
  Addressed to surgeons and traumatologists.

 

UROLOGY

 

Freidovich A.I.
Clinical phthisiourology
304 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04618-5

  The book deals with etiology, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, diagnostic methods, conservative and surgical treatment of patients with tuberculosis of kidneys, urinary tracts and male sexual organs.
  Intended for phthisiourologists, urologists, phthisiologists, surgeons, nephrologists, therapists.

 

Shetinin V.V., Zotov E.A., Kolpinsky G.I.
Treatment of Chronic Prostatitis
240 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04372-0

  In the monography the full, detailed description of ways used in practice and methods of treatment of a chronic prostatitis is submitted. Recommendations for treatment are given. The book is designed for expert: urologists, venereologists, physiatrists, but it will be interesting also to the broad audience of reader.

 

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