Based on his many-year experience and research findings, the author presents theoretical, clinical diagnostic, therapeutic, and organizational problems of modern borderline psychiatry. Modern diagnostic approaches to differential evaluation of borderline states are validated, special chapters describe personality disorders (psychopathies), disorders associated with social stress and posttraumatic stress, and psychosomatic diseases. From total systems analysis viewpoint the author discusses scientifically based individual therapeutic programs making use of psychotherapy, psychopharmacological and other therapies and informs in brief about psychotherapeutic methods and psychotropic drugs most often used in the treatment of patients with borderline states.

Addressed to psychiatrists, medical psychologists, and other specialists, as well as to medical students and for upgrading.

The book that comprises 2 parts summarises later data on functional morphology of normal lungs and that in diseases of infectious or noninfectious origin. Structural bases of respiratory function are covered. Close attention is given to nonrespiratory (metabolic) lung function and reparation processes.

The book is of interest to histologists, pathologists, phthisiologists, pulmonologists, cytologists and biochemists.

The authors who have much experience with various operations on the esophagus cover the most optimal ways of having good outcomes of surgical treatment for virtually all esophageal diseases and lesiona. Along with data on anatomy and physiology, indications and contraindications for medical and surgical treatment are given in detail. The book provides a lot of illustrations.

Readership: surgeons.

The guide presents a review of current knowledge on oncogenesis, oncogenes and suppressor genes of tumor growth, mechanisms of cell death and multi-drug resistence. Also, pathogenesis of hemoblastic leukemia, its cytogenetics and immunodiagnosis are covered.

Readership: clinical hematologists, oncologists, researchers.

The present book is one of the series of manuals edited by Yevgeny I. Chazov, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The manual is written by the leading specialists of the Research Center of Endocrinology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Department of Endocrinology of I.M. Sechenov Medical Academy. It presents modern data on pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of endocrine glands. Addressed to endocrinologists and general practitioners.

This manual presents the fundamentals of clinical endocrinology, anatomy, histology and physiology of endocrine gland. Special attention is paid to clinical diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases. Methods of examination used in diagnosis of endocrine diseases are described.

Addressed to medical students, resident physicians, endocrinologists, and physicians of other specialization.

The morphology of bronchopulmonary system is presented and physical, X-ray, functional, laboratory, and endoscopic diagnostic methods are described in detail. Etiology, pathogenesis, clinical picture, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases of respiratory diseases, obstructive pulmonary diseases, interstitial processes, diseases of the pleura, mediastinum, chest, and diaphragm are presented. The prevalence of rare hereditary, congenital, occupational, parasitic, and fungal diseases is discussed.

For therapists and pulmonologists.

Immunity mechanisms are presented on color figures facilitating acquisition of the material by students. The book covers all the scope of data in modern immunology and consists of 4 sections: molecular immunology, cellular immunology, specific manifestations and disorders of immunity, and comparative immunology.

Addressed to students of higher medical school.

This book is devoted to the problem of cerebral ischaemia.

The authors present the modern conception of cerebral ischaemic damage summing up the results of own clinical and experimental investigations, experience accumulated for decades as well as the achievements of native and foreign neurological researches. Cellular, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of brain infarction forming are showed. Basic strategies of anti-ischaemic neuroprotection and therapeutic prevention of brain damage are discussed in the book.

The monograph is intended for neurologists, cardiologists, therapeutists, neurosurgeons, cardiosurgeons as well as for scientific researchers.

This publication is the first in this country concerning social psychiatry. Updated data and conceptions in this field are systematized. The role of social environmental factors in the rise, clinical presentation, course and prophylaxis of mental pathology is emphasized. Application of social-psychiatric methods of psychiatrists and specialists contacting mental patients is described.

Readership: psychiatrists, psychotherapists, medical and social psychologists, health care managers, sociologists.

The guide describes the history of phototherapy, how light interacts with boilogical substance, equipment, present-day methods of photochemotherapy, photodynamic therapy, photohemotherapy, photoacupuncture, etc., used in the treatment of different diseases.

Intended for general practitioners.

The manual outlines principles in the use of laparoscopy and hysteroscopy for the diagnosis and surgical treatment of major gynecological diseases: myomas of the uterus, benign tumoral formations of the genitalia, malignant and inflammatory diseases, endometriosis, tubal infertility, developmental abnormalities, frank prolapse and falling, enuresis, etc. It also considers management policy, techniques of both reparative and radical gynecological and simultaneous operations performed via endoscopic access by using currently available surgical powers and technical means. The boor presents the authors’ 25-year experience, the results of clinical studies and researches in endoscopy and gynecology. The major surgical interventions via laparoscopic and hysteroscopic access by employing new technical means are given in detail.

Readership: obstetricians, gynecologists, urologists, oncologists, endoscopists.

Present a modern classification of gunshot craniocerebral injuries, medical ballistic characteristics of guns, and philosophy of diagnosis and treatment strategy. Describes in detail primary surgical treatment, purulent complications, and reanimation measures.

Addressed to neurosurgeons, reanimatologists, roentgenologists, surgeons, and traumatologists.

The manual discusses problems in organization of urgent neurosurgical care. Describes the major syndromes in urgent neurosurgery, as well as clinical picture, diagnosis, and treatment of isolated and combined craniocerebral and spinal injury. Pays special attention to gunshot craniocerebral wounds, suppurative complications, and neurosurgical strategy in acute cerebrovascular disease. Addressed to neurosurgeons, neurologists, ambulance doctors, traumatologists, reanimatologists, and roentgenologists.

The present manual describes the stucture and physiology of the intestine. Major syndromes and methods of examination of the intestine are given. Presents modern data on etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the small and large bowel. Addressed to therapeutists and gastroenterologists.

This manual presents organization of medical care to patients with acute poisoning, fundamentals of differential diagnosis and treatment, rehabilitation and prevention. Special attention is paid to clinical picture and treatment of poisoning with alcohol and its surrogates, drugs, acids, alkali, toxic gases, mushrooms, plant and animal toxins, etc.

The second version of the manual (the first was issued in 1989) includes new data on chemical homeostasis, endotoxicosis, and methods of physiohemotherapy.

For toxicologists, therapists, surgeons.

Hematological and oncologycal issues are covered with emphasis clinical pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy, novel diagnostic techniques (molecular-biological methods, computed tonography, immunological, etc.) and treatments (chemotherapy, stem bone marrow cells transplantation, accompanyng therapy).

Intended for general practitioners, hematologists, oncologysts, senior medical students.

The authors analyse current status of the problem of multifocal cancer, present conceptions of pathogenesis, clinica-roentgenomorphological criteria of the primacy of synchroneous and metachroneous newgrowths, issues of difesential diagnosis. Current classifications of polyneoplasia are considered by location, time of detection and histological structure. Diagnosis, clinical symptoms and treatment of multiple tumors are reviewed. Individual approach to treatment of separate tumors in polyneoplasia is proposed. Diagnostic and therapeutic errors in polyneoplasia are analysed. Recommendations are provided on follow-up of such patients.

Readership: oncologists, clinicians.

Presents current notions on the morphology and physiology of kidneys, mechanism of development and progress of nephropathies, and methods of examination of nephrological patients. Describes the major clinical syndromes (nephrotic syndrome, renal hypertension, acute and chronic renal insufficiency) and renal diseases (glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, nephrolithiasis, amyloidosis), renal involvement in systemic metabolic diseases, infections, and tumors. Renal affections in childhood and senile age and pregnancy are discussed. Modern therapeutic approaches to treatment of major nephropathies are described.

Addressed to therapists, pediatricians, general practitioners, and physicians of allied specialization.

The book deals with disputable issues in surgical correction in sex formation, including transsexualism. The manual is based on 20-year experience with surgical treatment of 5620 patients with genital abnormalities aged 2 months to 42 years, who were consulted and treated at the Department of Pediatric Surgery of the Russian Medical Academy and Clinical hospitals of Moscow, Samarkand and other CIS cities. Effective methods of syntopic and anatomic restoration of the genital organs are described. Fundamentals of substitute hormone therapy are presented.

This book presents the recent data about etiology and pathogenesis of epilepsy. More than 10 years experience of investigation of epilepsy made it possible to describe the modern classification and clinical aspects of different epileptic syndromes of infancy, childhood and adolescence.

The different chapters present the questions of EEG and Neuroimaging in epilepsy. More attention has been given to differential diagnosis of epilepsy. The specific schemes and protocols of treatment of the epilepsy in children are presented in the special parts of the book.

The textbook consists of 2 volumes. Volume 1 describes general pathological processes, injuries, inflammations, tumors, etc., and presents genetic diseases and diseases caused by environmental factors. Volume 2 describes the anatomy of human diseases in accordance with the cause and organ principle.

Pathomorphological data predominate in both volumes. They are supplemented by data on histology and cytology, biochemistry, immunology, genetics, pathophysiology, clinical and clinical diagnostic disciplines. Recent findings obtained by modern methods of morphological studies, including molecular biological methods, are presented in the book. For better acquisition of the material, data on the normal structure and function of organs and tissues are presented at the beginning of chapters and main sections of the textbook.

Part I of volume 2 consists of 7 chapters about cardiovascular diseases, blood cell and bone marrow diseases, diseases of the lymphoreticular system, infectious and parasitic diseases, respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases, and diseases of the liver and pancreas.

Addressed to medical students.

Part II of volume 2 consists of 9 chapters about renal and urinary diseases, diseases of the male and female gonadal system, mammary glands, gestation and postpartum diseases, neonatal and childhood diseases, endocrine and locomotor diseases, diseases of the skin, nervous system, and sensory organs. A list of recommended literature is offered at the end of the book.

Addressed to students of higher medical school.

The manual gives information on the mechanism of organ and tissue injuries, on the pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of gunshot wounds of the abdomen and pelvis. Indications for surgical intervention are defined. Surgical techniques on the abdomen and pelvis are outlined in relation to the nature of a wound. Complications due to gunshot wounds of the abdomen and pelvis and their treament are described.

Readership: surgeons, urologists.

The manual covers problems of a complicated line of present-day integrative and borderline medicine — cardioneurology. The authors review the results of their investigations for many years and literature data on etiology and pathogenesis of vascular diseases of the heart and brain. Basic research methods in cardioneurology are characterized. A separate chapter is devoted to pathogenesis of acute disorders of cerebral circulation. Cardiogenic mechanisms of cerebral ischemia are described. Important information on pharmacotherapy of cardiac and cerebral diseases regarding hemodynamic effects of medicines is provided.

Intended for cardiologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, cardiosurgeons.

Presents the mechanisms of development and clinical patterns of generalized lipodystrophy, diagnosis, therapy, and probable severe complications of this disease. Analyzes hormonal metabolic disorders in patients with generalized lipodystrophy similar to components of the metabolic syndrome in patients with obesity and diabetes mellitus.

The book will be interesting to specialists of various profiles: pediatricians, endocrinologists, cardiologists, gynecologists, pathophysiologists, and biochemists.

The book reviews current data on etiology and pathogenesis, clinical and differential diagnosis of various clinical entities of acute intestinal infections in children. Their classifications and etiological; structure are outlined. Combined therapy of acute diarrhea is described, recommendations on rehabilitation of patients who had intestinal infections are given. Syndromes of urgent states in acute intestinal infections in children and policy of intensive therapy are delineated.

Intended for pediatrists and specialists on infections.