MEDITSINA PUBLISHERS
CATALOGUE
2005

 

ANESTHESIOLOGY AND INTENSIVE CARE

 

Malyshev V.D.
Acid-Base Status and Water-Electrolyte Balance in Intensive Care
228 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04698-3

  The book presents modern approaches to diagnosis and treatment of acute disorders in acid-base status and water-electrolyte balance. Special attention is paid to methods for correction of the detected disorders, infusion/transfusion therapy, medical care rendered in urgent states (shock, septic syndrome, lactate acidosis and ketoacidoses, lung edema, circulatory insufficiency, renal failure, hemorrhages, etc.). Questions are formulated and brief answers are offered, helping better understand the syndromal disorders in various clinical conditions.
  Addressed to medical students, physicians of intensive care departments and of other specialization.

 

BIOLOGY

 

Danielyan L.T.
Kombucha and its biological features
176 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04828-5

  The book summarizes the data of long-term in-depth experimental studies of the symbionts of Kombucha, its culture broth (bactericidin), and the latter’s based “Hongo” health-improving drink, as well as isolated high-biologically active crystals. It also presents the results of studies of the morphology, biology, pharmacology, and effects of the culture broth on the body’s physiological processes, including immunity. The culture broth is shown to be therapeutically and preventively effective in medical and veterinary practice.
  Readership: biologists, veterinary surgeons, and wide audience.

Manual for Laboratory Studies in Biology and Ecology. Ed. by N.V. Chebyshev
400 pp., ill. (4 sheets of ill.)
ISBN 5-225-04785-8

  This book corresponds to the new curriculum for higher medical school and is written with consideration for certain specialization. Each task contains common and special problems on the topic, tasks for autotraining and auditorium work with control of the initial and new knowledge. Figures, schemes, and situation tasks essential for medical practice help better memorize and understand the material.
  Addressed to medical students.

 

CARDIOLOGY

 

Simonenko V.B., Tsokolov A.V., Fisun A.Ya.
Functional diagnosis
304 p., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04675-4

  The manual outlines the currently available methods for instrumental studies of cardiovascular performance, such as ECG, including the use of additional leads, 24-hour ECG monitoting, exercise functional tests, echocardiography, as well as stress echocardiography, electrophysiological study of the heart, Doppler radiosotopic and rheographic studies of the vessels of the head and neck, etc. The goal of this manual is to assist specialists in correctly interpreting and using the above techniques in medical diagnostic practice and during mass prophylactic surveys.
  Readership: clinicians, mainly for functional diagnosis specialists, cardiologists, therapists, and general practitioners.

 

DENTISTRY

 

Khvatova V.A.
Clinical Gnathology
296 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04851-X

  This training aid presents the fundamentals of gnathology and its terms, offers a functional analysis of the maxillofacial system, describes diseases and dysfunctions of the maxillodental system, their treatment, and modern methods, equipment, and devices for diagnosis. Discusses the gnathological aspects of orthopedic and orthodontic treatment, selective grinding of teeth, and use of therapeutic and diagnostic equipment. This is the first training aid on gnathology in Russian literature, which fact renders special importance to the book.
  Addressed to dentists, students of continuous education faculties, dental technologists, students of dentistry.

 

ENDOCRINOLOGY

 

Pinsky S.B., Kalinin A.P., Beloborodov V.A.
Diagnosis of thyroid diseases
192 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04303-8

  Based on the analysis of the data available in the literature and much personal experience, the authors of the monorgaph present the state-of-the-art of diagnosis of thyroid diseases.
  Readership: surgeons, oncologists, endocrinologists, pediatricians, gerontologists, biochemists, pathomorphologists, radiation diagnosis specialists, infectiologist, and epidemiologists.

 

EPIDEMIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

 

Knopov M.Sh.
Military epidemiology during the great patriotic War
320 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04073-X

  The book is dedicated to the development of national military epidemiology during the Great Patriotic War. It deals with the first in-depth study of the stepwise development of military epidemiology. The book details the managerial, scientific, and public activities of the principal epidemiologists of front and navies, assesses their role in solving the urgent problems of epidemiological science and practice. The archeves and accounts available in the literature have been used to prepare this edition.
  Readership: epidemiologists, military and civin public health administrators, and medical historians.

 

GENERAL PROBLEMS

 

Petrov V.I., Perepelkin A.I.
English-Russian Medical Dictionary of Eponymic terms. About 6700 terms. Ed. by V.I. Petrov
384 pp.
ISBN 5-225-03622-8

  This dictionary is a pilot universal English-Russian Dictionary of medical terms in Russian literature. This dictionary is a handbook presenting eponymic terms, uniting anatomical, nosological, clinical, and other medical notions. The most prevalent variants of spelling and pronunciation of eponyms' translation into Russian, traditionally used in Russian literature, are given; synonyms of terms, historical and other data are offered.
  Addressed to medics, translators, scientists, and medical students.

RUSSIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE / Editor-in-chief N.F. Izmerov
656 p.
ISBN 5-225-04054-3

  The enciclopedia is the first systematized scientific reference book on occupational medicine in Russia and foreign countries. The book countains the present-day theoretical propositions of occupational diseases, sanitary standardization, and sociohygienic monitoring. It also presents information on factors influencing the health of working persons, such as the nature of working activity (work load and intensity), the adverse conditions of the industrial environment, as well as working and recreational conditions. The encyclopedia provides information on major occupational diseases and summarizes data on prevention and sociomedical rehabilitation.
  Readership: physicians, labor protection and ecology specialists, and insurance workers.

State Register of Drugs. Supplement I. Official Issue
ISBN 5-225-04261-9

The book is prepared by the Federal State Institution "Research Center of Expert Evaluation of Means for Medical Use" and is based on official materials.

 

GERONTOLOGY

 

Semenkov V.F., Karandashov V.I., Kovalchuk L.V.
Immunogerontology
208pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04095-0

  The book analyzes the data available in the literature and the results of the authors’ own studies on immunogerontology. It presents new information on the mechanisms of immune system aging, on the involvement of immunogenetic factors, cytokines, and thermal shock proteins in this process. Age-related involution of the thymus and age-related changes in an immune response are described. Current views of suppressor cell subpopulations and immunodeficiencies in old age, as well as atherosclerosis-immunity relationship are given. Emphasis is placed on the role of antioxidant defense. The function of production of active oxygen forms in immunoaging and the impact of hypoxia and mountainous climate on oxidative metabolism and aging are considered. The longevity phenomenon and current approaches to drug and nondrug immunomodulation in gerontological care are outlined.
  Readership: specialists engaged in human aging and longevity and in life quality improvement, medical geriatrists, immunologists, allergologists, and therapists.

 

HEALTH RESORT TREATMENT

 

Nazarenko G.I., Yepifanov V.A., Geroeva I.B.
Cozarthrosis. Rehabilitative treatment and postoperative rehabilitation
144 p., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04329-1

  The book deals with the current approaches to nondrug medical treatments and rehabilitation of patients after endoprosthetic repair of the hip joint. It generalizes the data currently available in the literature and the authors’ much experience. The book describes how and why the disease develops, how correctly to examine the patient and to formulate its functional diagnosis and the goal of treatment, and how to choose the most effective treatments in relation to the individual clinical manifestations. Process charts, treatment programs, rationales for the choice of different drugs, procedures of their use, recommendations on motor activity and day-to-day behavior are given.
  Readership: medical rehabilitation, rehabilitative medicine, therapeutic exercise, and physiotherapy specialists working at hospitals, polyclinics, medical-and-physial educational dispensaries, and rehabilitation centers; the book is also useful for patients with coxarthrosis.

 

HISTOLOGY

 

Kruglikov G.G., Pekarskii M.I.
Atlas of Functional Morphology of Blood and Connective Tissue Cells (Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopy)
176 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04090-X

  This book is a monographic atlas, presenting original data, obtained on experimental and clinical material and adapted for individual studies in accordance with the histology and pathology curriculums. Scanning and transmission electronograms are presented and illustrations demonstrating the potentialities of other methods of morphological analysis are offered. The materials in this Atlas reflect the functional morphology of cells of the internal media tissues. Other structures are also presented: fibers and capillaries.
  Addressed to students, postgraduate students, young scientists specialized in histology, immunology, infectious diseases, occupational diseases, aerospace biology, etc.

 

HYGIENE AND SANITATION

 

Kataeva V.A., Lakshin A.M.
Handbook for Laboratory, Practical, and Individual Studies of Common Hygiene and Fundamentals of Human Ecology
368 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04691-6

  This training aid corresponds to the curriculum (1992) for therapeutic, pediatric, and dentistry faculties and to the curriculum on hygiene with fundamentals of human ecology (for faculties of dentistry) approved by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation in 1999. It describes methods and methodologies of hygienic studies of the major environmental factors and body reactions to these factors, enabling the students master the practical skills of hygienic expert evaluation of air environment, drinking water, and main foodstuffs. Special attention is paid to problems of common hygiene and hygiene of labor, including hygiene of dentists. Numerous situation tasks on various topics promote deeper and more extensive knowledge of respective sections and help better memorize the information. The last section presents tests (with solutions) for students' self-control.
  Addressed to students of dentistry.

Mel'nichenko P.I., Ogarkov O.I., Lizunov Yu.V.
Military Hygiene and Military Epidemiology
400 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04849-8

  The book presents modern data on military hygiene and military epidemiology, methodological and organization bases of sanitary and epidemiological surveillance and medical control of vital and communal activity of the arms forces during wartime and emergency of peace time. Materials on the dislocation, nutrition, water supply, military labor, and army movements hygiene are presented. Hazardous and harmful factors of the environment and their effects on human body are described and problems of sanitary epidemiological expert testing of water and foodstuffs for infection are discussed. The regularities of epidemic process development in servicemen are shown; based on these regularities, the organization of epidemic control and protection in war time and emergency is shown; general scheme of measures is given, their contents and realization in the army are described. The principles of organization of sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance and criteria for evaluating the sanitary epidemiological status of arms force and regions of their dislocation are described in detail. Characteristics of biological weapons and organization of biological protection of arms forces are presented.
  The book is prepared in accordance with the curriculum approved by the ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation and is addressed to students of medical prophylactic, therapeutic, pediatric, and dentistry faculties of higher medical school and of military training faculties.

 

IMMUNOLOGY

 

Leskov V.P., Cheredeyev A.N., Gorlina N.K., Novozhenov V.G.
Clinical immunology for the practitioner
144 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04037-3

  The book presents methods for th diagnosis of immunodeficiencies, routine treatment regimens, and the drugs recently designed by immunologists. It also describes an algorithm that permits the interpretation of an immunogram amd, basing on its data, the choice of an immunostumulant that is adequqte to the immunity of a patient.
  Readership: out- and inpatient physicians.

 

INTERNAL DISEASES

 

Podymova S.D.
Liver diseases
768 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04106-X

  The 4th edition (the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd ones come out in 1984, 1993, and 1998 respectively) provides new data on acute and chronic viral hepatitis, the methods of specific prevention and antiviral therapy, which are recommended in global practice, and on the treatment of hepatic encephalopathy, portal hypertension, ascitis, hepatic transplantation. All diseases are presented in accordance with the new classification of liver diseases. The sections of clinical syndromes and laboratory and instrumental studies are extended. The etiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis, and treatment of all the most important focal and diffuse diseases of the liver are deals with. In accordance with the latest achievements in medicine, chapters on viral hepatitis, autoimmune diseases of the liver, alcoholic diseases, porphyrias, amyloidosis, and hepatic vescular diseases have been revised. The chapter “Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis” has been introduced. Under consideration are also hepatic lesions in chronic infections, hemopoietic and circulatory diseases, metabolic disturbances, drug and toxin related disorders, as well as liver diseases in neonatal infants and children. Great emphasis is laid on current diagnosis and therapy individualization.
  Readership: gastroenterologists, surgeons, infectiologists, pediatriciens, researchers.

Internal Diseases Propedeutics. Ed. by A.S. Svistov, Yu.S. Malov, S.N. Shulenin
536 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04674-6

  The book consists of 3 parts. Part 1 includes the definition of the subject and presents medical deontology. Brief history of the development of diagnosis and semiotics is presented, methods of examinations (physical, laboratory, and instrumental) and their use for the diagnosis of diseases of various body systems are described. Parts 2 and 3 describe the main syndromes and clinical picture of the most prevalent diseases in their classical variants.
  The book corresponds to the curriculum approved by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and is addressed to third-year students.

 

MEDICINE OF DISASTERS

 

Fefilova L.K.
Vital Activity Safety and Medicine of Disasters
416 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04677-0

  The book presents the structure and functions of All-Russian Service of Medicine of Disasters, its hardware and equipment, therapeutic and transportation provision of the population in emergency. Medical strategic characterization of natural, technogenic, and social disasters is given. Specific features of injuries in foci of accidents and disasters are described. Special attention is paid to first medical and pre-medical care, actions of the population under extreme conditions. A special section is devoted to survival under autonomous conditions. Tests will help the students better memorize and understand the material.
  Addressed to students of medical colleges.

 

MICROBIOLOGY

 

V.N. Mal'tsev, E.P. Pashkov, and L.I. Khauchtova
Fundamentals of Microbiology and Immunology
280 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04279-1

  The training aid conforms to the curriculum for medical schools. It is written as a course of lectures in which the authors used their many-year training experience gained at medical institutes and schools. The first two parts present the fundamentals of modern medical microbiology and immunology. The third (final) part demonstrates the potentialities of using the theoretical knowledge for practical diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infectious diseases. The lectures are illustrated by original figures and schemes.
  Addressed to students of medical schools and colleges.

Microbiology and Immunology / Ed. by A.A. Vorobyov
496 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04271-6

  The book consists of two parts: general and special microbiology. Classification, morphology, physiology, ecology, and genetics of bacteria and antibacterial agents are described. The theory of infection and immunity is presented. Immunoprophylaxis and immunotherapy are discussed. Agents of human infections are described.
  Addressed to higher medical students and students of medical colleges.

 

NARCOLOGY

 

Sivolap Yu.P., Savchenkov V.A.
Opioid abuse and opioid dependence
304 p.
ISBN 5-225-04237-6

  The monograph is dedicated to theoretical and practical aspects of a problem of opioid abuse and dependence and consists of three parts. The first part incorporates the latest knowledge on pharmacology of opioids and neurobiology of opioid dependence. Besides the common intelligence the data on pharmacology, toxicology and abuse potential of separate opioids — both street drugs and medicinal preparations — are considered. The second part covers clinical questions of opioid abuse. Besides the phase conditions of opioid dependence (drug intoxication, withdrawal, postwithdrawal state and remission) the questions of psychopathology of opioid dependence such as infectious, visceral and neurological consequences of opioid abuse are highlighted. The third part focuses on the basic models of opioid dependence treatment with the analysis of advantages and disadvantages of each of them. Methadone maintenance and other programmes of opioid substitution are minutely considered.
  Readership: Specialists in addictive disorders, psychiatrists, anaesthesiologists and other specialists.

 

NEUROLOGY & PSYCHIATRICS

 

Litvintsev S.V., Snedkov Ye. V., Reznik A. M.
Combat psychic trauma
432 p.
ISBN 5-225-04063-2

  The manual presents the current views of the factors and mechanisms of development of combat psychic disorders and outlines the changes occurring in Russian and foreign scientists’ ideas on this problem. It also considers the basic constituents of a psychic trauma occurring during military operations. The characteristics of posttraumatic reactions, conditions, and behavior are given in detail. The problems in organization of mental care are a feature of the book.
  Readership: psychiatrists, psychologists, neurologists, psychophysiologists.

Stepanchenko A.V., Mar'yanovsky A.A.
Neurochemical Systems
112 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04285-6

  This training aid discusses (from the neuronal theory viewpoint) the common mechanisms of the nervous system in health and disease. Demonstrates the role of bioactive substances in the development of the major nervous and mental diseases.
  Addressed to students of higher medical school.

 

NEUROSURGERY

 

Lebedev V.V., Krylov V.V., Tissen T.P., Khalchevskii V.M.
Computer-Aided Tomography in Urgent Neurosurgery
360 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04782-3

  This training aid presents pressing problems in CT diagnosis of acute neurosurgical diseases and CNS injuries. Special attention is paid to problems in organization of urgent CT diagnosis. Clinical CT symptoms of acute neurosurgical diseases are described in detail.
  Addressed to postgraduate medical students, specialists in radiodiagnosis, neurosurgeons, neurologists, traumatologists, and intensive care specialists.

 

NURSING

 

Volkov S.R., Volkova M.M.
Healthy Human
608 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04844-7

  The textbook presents modern concepts of human health, requirements, ways to meet them, and the role of nursing staff in health maintenance. Basic parameters reflecting the demographic situation in Russia and the world, anatomo-physiological and psychological characteristics of normal humans of different age, their requirements and probable problems, essential for health at different age are presented. Main trends of nursing activities aimed at preservation of human health are outlined. The information presented in the book corresponds to the requirements of the last-generation State Educational Standard.
  Addressed to students of medical colleges and schools, trained for therapy (specialty 0401), obstetrics (0402), and nursing (0406).

 

ONCOLOGY

 

Clinical oncogynecology / Ed. by V.P. Kozachenko
376 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04767-X

  Based on the authors’ own findings and recent progress made by Russian and foreign investigators, the manual presents data on precancerous lesions and malignant neoplasms of the external female genitals, uterine cervix, ovaries, and tubes, as well as trophoblastic disease. It covers their etiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, and semiotics. Much attention is given to the implication of endocrine disorders for the occurrence of tumor pathology of the female reproductive system. New methods of early diagnosis used in the out- and inpatient setting are described, which make it possible to implement prophylactic measurements to prevent cancer. The most effective treatments of cancer diseases, as well as their early and late results are presented.
  Readership: oncologists, gynecologists, surgeons and rediologists.

 

OPHTHALMOLOGY

 

Visual functions and their correction in children / Ed. by S.E. Avetisov, T.P. Kaschenko, A.M. Shamshinova
872 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04115-9

  The manual summarizes the experience gained in the previous century on the basic sections of pediatric ophthalmology. It outlines the issues of blindness and pooreyesight, refraction and accommodation, strobology and myopia, amblyopia and nystagmus, what pediatric ophthalmologists face in daily practice. The manual considers congenital childhood diseases of the organ of vision, in which it is necessary to perform surgery (congenital cataract, congenital glaucoma, dystrophic corneal diseases), as well as albinism. While describing hereditary diseases of the retina and optic nerve, developmental anomalies of the optic nerve, present the current views of the pathogenesis of these diseases, advances of molecular biology and genetics, as well as diagnostic methods. The authors of the sections and chapters of the manual are the leading ophthalmologists and their followers who bear the best traditins of ophthalmological science in future.
  Readership: ophthalmologists, medical students, postgraduate students, and registrars.

Yevgrafov V.Yu., Batmanov Yu.Ye.
Cataract
368 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04692-4

  The book presents the currently available data on the anatomy, histology, and pathogenesis of cataract, and on the bases of the transparency of the normal lens of the eye. It details the modes of examining and and following up a patient with cataract and predicting visual functions after cataract removal. The book also considers the main types of cataract-removing operations, such as ultrasonic, laser phacoemulsification, mechanical phacofragmentation, and extracapsular extraction of cataract, indications for and contraindications to their performance, as well as up-to-date models of intraocular lenses. Great emphasis is placed on intra- and postoperative commplications and methods of their prevention and treatment.
  Readership: ophthalmologists, surgeons mastering current cataract-removing technologies, anesthesiologists.

 

OTOLARYNGOLOGY

 

Benign tumors of the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, nasopharynx in children
N.A. Daikhes, S.V. Yablonsky, Kh.Sh. Davudov, S.M. Kuyan
256 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04273-2

  The manual deals with the clinical picture, diagnosis, and treatment of benign tumors of the nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, and nasopharynx in children. It presents the basic data on the anatomy and embryology of the nose, paranasal sinuses, and nasopharynx, as well as the topoographic anatomy of vessels of the head and neck. Current radiation diagnostic techniques, including computed and magnetic resonance imaging, are described in detail and illustrated. The authors propose a differential approach to choosing a mode of surgical or combined treatment of diseases, as well as to preoperative preparation and anesthesiological support of operations.
  Readership: otolaryngologists, oncologists, X-ray specialists, pediatricians.

Daikhes N.A., Yablonsky S.V., Davudov Kh.Sh., Kuyan S.M.
Juvenile angiofibroma of the base of the skull
216 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04108-6

  The monograph deals with the clinical picture, diagnosis, and treatment of juvenile angiofibroma of the base of the skull, which as a tumor that is benign in histological structure, but actually shows a malignant clinical course. Particular emphasis is placed on the currently available mathods of radiation diagnosis, on the methods of intervention radiology, and on the modes of surgical treatment and anesthesia. The book is the first to present information on interferon status in this group of patients and on the possibilities of its correction. A procedure for radiation therapy and other treatments are described.
  Readership: otolaryngologists, oncologists, surgeons, radiation diagnosticians.

Pediatric otolaryngology / Eds M.R. Bogomilsky, V.R. Chistyakova. — In 2 volumes. V. I.
660 p., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04823-4

  Volume I of the guide presents information on the history of formation and development of pediatric otolaryngology, considers the anatomy, physiology, and functional features of ENT in children in relation to age, outlines their classical studies, and describes new ways of diagnosing dysfunctions, mainly hearing impairments in infancy, by using the currently available computer technologies. The basic data on hereditary and congenital ENT pathology, inflammatory diseases of the nose, paranasal sinuses, larynx, and ear are given in tandem. The authors’ original dicisions on surgical correction of congenital deformities of the external and middle ears are described in detail.
  Readership: otolaryngologists, pediatricians, specialists in functional diagnosis and visualization techniques.

Pediatric otolaryngology / Eds M.R. Bogomilsky, V.R. Chistyakova. — In 2 volumes. V. 2.
528 p., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04065-9

  Volume II of the guide focuses particular attention on a physician’s tectics when emergency care is required in ENT injuries and foreign bodies, laryngeal stenoses, chemical esophageal burns, etc. The issues of endoscopy of the ear, pharynx, nasal cavity, and paranasal sinuses, by applying the present-day optics are detailed. Data on new treatments for childhood ENT diseases, including those on antibiotic therapy and on the efficiency and perspectives of use of lasers, are widely presented. Recent data on hearing-improving therapy, audioprosthesis, and cochlear implantation are of great interest. The authors describe benign and malignant ENT tumors in children in detail and give guidelines for improving their diagnosis and social rehabilitation in children.
  Readership: otolaryngologists, pediatricians, surgeons, oncologists.

 

PATHOLOGY

 

Manual of Special Human Pathology. In two parts. Ed. by N.K. Khitrov, D.S. Sarkisov, M.A. Pal'tsev. Part 1
480 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04830-7

  Part 1 of this manual presents a working program of human special pathology, lectures and practical studies. Typical diseases of cardiovascular and respiratory systems, blood system, and adaptation processes in these diseases are described. Practical studies include a list of obligatory literature, test control of the initial level of student's knowledge, training tasks, and situation problems. At the end of part 1 questions for control tests and examinations are offered together with reference answers for tests, training tasks, and situation problems for practical studies.
  Addressed to senior medical students, postgraduate students, and young training staff specialized in pathology.

Manual of Special Human Pathology. In two parts. Ed. by N.K. Khitrov, D.S. Sarkisov, M.A. Pal'tsev. Part 2
480 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04832-3

  Part 2 of the Manual presents lectures and practical studies. Discusses the typical diseases of gastrointestinal, hepatic, pancreatic, renal, endocrine and nervous systems, reproductive system, and adaptation processes in these conditions. Practical studies include a list of relevant literature, test control of the initial level of student's knowledge, training tasks and situation problems. At the end of part 2 questions for control tests and examinations are offered together with reference answers to the tests, training tasks, and situation problems for practical studies.
  Addressed to senior medical students, postgraduate students, and young training staff specialized in pathology.

 

PEDIATRIC SURGERY

 

Podkamenev V.V.
Surgical Diseases of Childhood
240 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04103-5

  This training aid presents the modern problems in surgical diseases of childhood. A specific feature of this book is systematic presentation of surgical diseases, including modern data in fundamental disciplines. More effective learning of the material is attained by algorithmic presentation and possibility of autocontrol. More than 100 clinical problems with answers and comments are presented.
  Addressed to higher medical students and postgraduate students.

 

PHTHISIOLOGY

 

Kolomiets V.M., Lebedev Yu.I.
Phthsiopulmonology
560 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04836-6

  This training aid presents 18 basic topics including specific features of examination of a tuberculous patient, diagnosis and clinical picture of the main forms of tuberculosis, its treatment and prevention. The book corresponds to the new curriculum, intending a greater volume, more extensive and individual training of students.
  Addressed to medical students.

 

PHYTOTHERAPY

 

Nikonov G.K., Manuilov B.M.
Fundamentals of Modern Phytotherapy
520 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04848-X

  The training aid presents the history of phytotherapy and its role in modern medicine. Substances essential for the therapeutic effects of plants, methods for preparing dosage forms, indications, contraindications, and recommendations on the use of plants in various diseases are described. Published data on the use of officinal preparations and popular medicine means are presented. The training aid will be useful for medical and pharmaceutical students.
  Addressed to medical workers and public at large.

 

PHYSIOTHERAPY

 

Special Physiotherapy. Ed. by G.N. Ponomarenko
744 pp.
ISBN 5-225-04676-2

  This book presents the main sections of special physiotherapy and sums up the modern notions on physical methods of treatment. Methods of the syndromal pathogenetic effects of man-made and natural physical factors are discussed, main indications and contraindications for their use are enumerated, methods of therapeutic exposure are described, problems of health resort and spa treatment, doses of exposure and their compatibility are discussed.
  Addressed for medical upgrading.

 

REUMATOLOGY

 

Zborovskaya I.A.
Rheumatic diseases and the antioxidative system
128 p.
ISBN 5-225-04297-X

  The book gives the data available in the literature and the results of the author’s own studies of the blood antioxidative system in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, Bekhterev’s disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, and systemic scleroderma. It presents cases of treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis by the classical regimens and with pathogenetic agents, such as antioxidants (peroxynorm, tocopheron).
  This is the first study of the antioxidative system in rheumatoid arthritis, which has been performed in the past 10—15 years.

 

SEXUAL PATHOLOGY

 

General sexual pathology (G.S. Vasilchenko, I.L. Botneva, Yu.Yu. Vinnik et al.) Ed. G.S. Vasilchenko
512 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04820-X

  This revised manual the first edition of which appeared in 1977 is based on the general principle of structural analysis of sexual disorders, which has been developed in the context of a systems approach and ensures an extended clinical diagnosis by taking into account the psyche, elementary nerve regulations, hormonal provision, and the urogenital apparatus in their integral interaction. It deals with the biological bases, anatomical, physiological, and psychological features of sexual manifestations in both sexes, the procedure of an examination, the semiotics, etiology, pathogenesis of sexual disorders, and the principles of their treatment.
  Readership: sex therapists and related medical specialists: neurologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, urologists, andrologists, gynecologists.

 

SURGERY

 

Abakumov M.M., Lebedev N.V., MalyarchukV.I.
Abdominal injuries in polytrauma
176 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04052-7

  The monograph outlines the specific features of diagnosis and surgical treatment.Perticular emphasis is laid on the problems in the objective assessment of the severity of an injury and that of victims’ condition. The potentialities of up-to-date medical technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of combined injuries are given.
  Readership: surgeons, specialists of radiologie studies, anesthesiology and intensive care anesthesiologists, resuscitators, radiation diagnosis specialists.

Chadayev A.P., Lyubsky A.S., Lyubsky A.A.
Surgical treatment for pandactylitis
80 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04841-2

  The book outlines the present-day principles in the treatment of pandactylitis, presents the authors’ original classification of the disease, and gives guidelines for its differential treatment policy in relation to the form of this pathology. It also details the types of surgical intervention into different dactylar structures and shows it possible to preserve not only the anatomic integrity of a finger, but also its functional capacities. Criteria for assessing the long-term results of treatment are formulated.
  Readership: surgeons.

Gorshkov S.Z.
Closed injuries of the abdomen and retroperitoneal space
224 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04272-4

  The monograph dealth with the topical issues of urgent surgery and traumatology gives a retrospective analysis of many years’ experience in treating vistims with injuries of organs of the abdomen and retroperitoneal space and the present-day problems of their early diagnosis. It also analyzes the informative value of clinical signs, proposes an algorithm of clinical diagnosis, specifies indications for and contrandications to instrumental and hardware diagnostic studies, and considers medicotactical issues, particularly indications for organ-saving operations, and early and late complications after surgical interventions.
  Readership: general practitioners, surgeons, traumatologists, resuscitators, medical teachers.

Kharnas S.S., Pavlov Yu.V.
New technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with surgical diseases of the ling and pleura
96 p., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04223-6

  The monograph covers problems in the use of various frequency ultrasound and low-energy laser in the diagnosis and treatment in patients with surgical diseases of the lung and pleura. The authors have developed the optimal diagnostic and medical policy and introduced it into clinical practice for patients with benign and malignant tumors, purulent lung diseases, and pleurisies. Particular emphasis is laid on the prevention and treatment of acute postoperative pleural empyemas.
  Readership: thoracic surgeons, pulmonologists, and phthisiologists, as well as physicians of different specialities.

Nesterenko Yu.A., Stupin V.A.
Surgery
592 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04695-9

  This version of the book presents chapters on the history of surgery and organization of nurses' work. Sections on aseptics and antiseptics, anesthesiology, surgical techniques, and traumatology are supplemented by modern information. Special surgery section offers modern recommendations on the diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases of the head, chest, abdominal cavity, pelvis, urogenital organs, on traumatology and angiology. Care of surgical patients at all stages of examination and treatment is described in detail. Special attention is paid to the diagnosis and treatment of urgent states, to rendering first medical and premedical aid.
  Addressed to higher medical students.

Puchkov K.V., Khubezov D.A.
Low-invasive surgery of the large bowel
280 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04694-0

  The manual outlines the currently available methods of low-invasive surgery of the large bowel in cancer and other diseases. It presents a brief information on the anatomic features of the large bowel, describes the principles, stages, and outcomes of operations using high-technology apparatures and tools that have a sparing effect on tissues and organs.
  Readership: surgeons, coloproctologists, and physicians of other specialties.

Termal and radiation burns / Eds. L.I. Gerasimova, G.I. Nazarenko
384 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04681-9

  The manual presents the present-day views of the pathogenesis, clinical picture, and treatment of thermal and radiation burns. It reflects the specific features of the course of burn disease and the treatment of elderly and senile patients. The book contains new chapters concerning the rehabilitation of patients in the phase of hospital convalescence, the correction of somatic disorders in end-stage radiation pathology, the abolition of borderline mental disorders, and the prevention and treatment of postburn scarry lesions. The authors also offer a chapter that deals with technological revolution in the treatment of burns, based on the experience gained in some foreign countries.
  Readership: surgeons, traumatologists, and combustiologists.

Tsuman V.G., Mashkov A.Ye.
Pyoseptic complications of acute surgical diseases in children
288 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04283-X

  The monograph updates the pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis, and treatment of the most severe forms of childhood surgical infection (complicated forms of pyoseptic diseases: generalized purulent peritonitis, hematogenous osteomyelitis, acute pyodestructive pneumonia). Particular emphasis is laid on pathogenetic rationale for their complex treatment. A number of original procedures for their diagnosis and treatment are described.
  Readership: pediatric and general surgeons, pediatricians, resuscitators.

 

TRAUMATOLOGY & ORTHOPEDICS

 

Shevtsov V.I., Dyachkov A.N., Chirkova A.M., Iryanov Yu.M.
Skull bone regeneration in perosseous osteosynthesis
168 pp., ill.
ISBN 5-225-04284-8

  The book deals with regeneration of flat bones of the cranial vault on displacement of pediculated fractured fragments in their defect, with osteogeny during distraction osteosynthesis, as well as with regeneration of skull bones in compression.
  Readership: orthopedists, traumatologists, and neurosurgeons.

 

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