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I G Liudkovskaia

Publications and source records attributed to I G Liudkovskaia.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1992

[The astrocyte reaction to an experimental herpes infection].

The experimental research carried out on rabbits was aimed at determination of astrocytes reaction during brain inflammation caused by Herpes simplex virus. The study was made with the help of glia marker. Immunocytochemical findings showed that the earliest structural brain responses to the infection were changes in astrocyte glia. This was evident from the swelling and hypertrophy of vessel crus and from increased number of astrocytes around the vessels. Glia complexes (astrocyte agglomeration) were formed in the affected sites. During the exudative reaction the hyperplastic alterations of astrocytes were not observed. Later the injured spots of brain tissue were replaced by proliferating astrocytes. The conducted investigation has shown the astrocyte glia to be different during different stages of the infectious process. One may suppose that different subtypes of astrocytes response has place during each stage which should be further confirmed. One may also suppose that a similar alterations of astrocytes coincide with interferon and interleukin secretion by these cells. This is suggested to be a structural base of immune response of the brain.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1992

[Arterial hypertension and pathology of cerebral white matter].

White matter of the brain in 25 autopsy cases with the stroke and chronic cerebro-vascular pathology produced by arterial hypertension (AH) was studied morphologically. Focal and diffuse changes of the white matter were found against the background of the hypertonic angiopathy. These changes were represented by lacunar infarcts, foci of incomplete necrosis, perivascular encephalolysis, more seldom by small haemorrhages in combination with edema, cribriform lesions and widespread spongiosis of the white matter. Alterations of the cortex-medullary arteries, microcirculatory bed, disturbances of the dynamics of liquor and permeability of blood-brain barrier play the most important role in the white matter damage. The authors distinguish 3 forms of this damage. The complex of these alterations is regarded as a morphological substrate of a vascular dementia associated with AH.

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PubMed1991

[Morphologic changes in the skin and superficial temporal arteries in Sneddon's syndrome].

Skin biopsies from livedo's areas of 25 patients and fragments of superficial temporal arteries of 10 patients with Sneddon's syndrome were examined. Pathological changes in the dermis arteries of small and medium calibers were found in the form of the intima hyperplasia, proliferation of vascular wall cell elements (80%), arterial thrombosis (with diameter of 60-200 microns). These changes were found in 68% of observations when clinical and morphological signs of vasculitis were lacking. "Arteriopathy" is the most appropriate term for such lesions. Focal and diffuse fibro-muscular elastic hyperplasia of the intima and muscular layer fibrosis in the wall of superficial temporal arteries may be considered as age-associated lesions. Ultrastructurally, a selective damage of the non-adrenergic part of the nervous apparatus of the dermal arteries and superficial temporal arteries were observed; this suggests the participation of the damaged vascular neurogenic regulation in the formation of organic vascular changes.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

[Hyperbaric oxygenation in acute compression-dislocation syndrome (experimental-morphological study)].

Acute compression dislocation syndrome was reproduced in rabbits by means of epidural brain compression with a balloon. After elimination of brain compression the main group were treated by HBO whereas the control group did not receive HBO. The use of HBO resulted in a decrease of the lethality in hyperextension manifestations. Using the total water measurement in the brain the main group was discovered to have a decrease of brain edema at different times, associated with compression and eliminated compression thereof. Microscopy revealed a reduction of pericellular, perivascular and subependymal edema as well as of edema of vascular plexus and venous brain plethora under the influence of HBO.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1988

[Morphology and pathogenesis of changes in the substantia alba of the cerebral hemispheres in arterial hypertension].

Morphological examination of the brain in 17 autopsies of patients with arterial hypertension and cerebral stroke has revealed damage of the white matter of the large cerebral hemispheres of a focal and diffuse nature. The main role in stroke development is ascribed to changes in the intracerebral cortico-medullar arteries manifested in hypertension and persistent brain edema. The following 3 forms of white matter damage associated with arterial hypertension have been described: (1) multi-infarctional; (2) periventricular (periventricular spongiosis); (3) combined (diffuse).

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PubMed1986

[Hypertensive angiopathy of the brain].

Cerebral vessels were studied by light microscopy in 20 autopsies after hemorrhagic stroke from arterial hypertension. Primary (acute), secondary (reparative) changes, as well as changes reflecting compensatory-adaptive processes, were found in the intracerebral and superficial arteries of the brain. The whole complex of these vascular changes was defined as hypertonic angiopathy. The usage of such terms as "angiopathy" and "combined angiopathy" were discussed. Criteria of morphologic diagnosis of angiopathies were proposed.

Adaptation, Physiological↗
PubMed1985

[Features of changes in vessels of the cortex and white matter of the cerebral hemispheres in arterial hypertension].

The authors examined morphologically the arteries of the surface and intracerebral arteries of the cortex and white substance of different areas of the cerebral hemispheres in 11 necropsies of patients with arterial hypertension who died from hemorrhagic strokes. It was established that arteries of the cerebral surface 200-500 micron in diameter were characterized by compensatory-adaptive processes reflecting structural adaptation of the vessels to a prolonged elevation of blood pressure. The intracerebral arteries were considerably more frequently characterized by changes induced by hypertonic crises expressed in the form of plasmorrhagias and isolated necrosis of the tunica media. The cortico-medullary arteries 100-150 micron in diameter were predominantly affected which accounts for a more severe damage to the cerebral white substance in arterial hypertension.

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PubMed1984

[Hypertonic angioencephalopathy in its pathomorphological aspect].

This is a report on 20 autopsies of patients with arterial hypertension and atherosclerosis who died of a hemorrhagic stroke. Morphological changes characteristic of hypertonic angioencephalopathy were detected in the intracerebral vessels and cerebral substance. They included plasmorrhagia with arterial stenosis and necrosis, miliary aneurysms, isolated necrosis of the pia mater attended with vascular deformation, complete and incomplete necrosis of the cerebral substance, gliomesodermal cicatrices, perivascular hemorrhages, lacunar infarctions at various stages of their progression, etc. The pathomorphological classification of cerebral circulation impairments has thus incorporated an additional notion "hypertonic angioencephalopathy".

Brain↗
PubMed1981

[Morphology of "resuscitation-induced encephalopathy"].

Two groups of changes in the cerebral substance were revealed by histological examinations of the central nervous system in a case of clinical death followed by respiratory resuscitation for 12 days. Changes of the 1st group consisted in foci of incomplete necrosis in the stage of organization in the cortex and dentate nuclei of the cerebellum, lower olives of the medulla, Zommer sector of the Ammon horn, and caudate nuclei. Their development is due to ischemia and circulatory hypoxia in the early resuscitation period. Changes of the 2nd group included acute disorders of microcirculation and extensive protein and carbohydrate dystrophy of nerve cells of the cortex and subcortical ganglia in the form of hyperchromatosis hydropic degeneration. "alzheimerization", accumulation of glycogen in the cytoplasm of neurons and astrocytes. The degenerative changes were combined with signs of gradual death of neurons and pseudolaminar losses in the cerebral cortex. Changes of the 2nd group may be classified as the so-called secondary nor delayed cerebral hypoxia in the development of which microcirculatory disorders are of importance. The observed morphological changes in the brain after clinical death and prolonged respiratory resuscitation represent morphological expression of "resuscitation-conditioned encephalopathy".

Brain↗
PubMed1978

[Combined infarct of the brain in the basin of the middle and anterior cerebral arteries].

The report contains a description of the morphology, pathogenesis and clinical picture of combined brain infarctions in 16 cases developing in the basin of the middle and anterior arteries. The mechanisms of their development are discussed: thrombosis, thrombembolia of the middle and anterior brain arteries and their branches, pressure of the cortical branches in the anterior brain artery by the lower edge of the large crescentic process of the dura mater.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

[Morphology and pathogenesis of "brain death" in stroke].

The results of morphological examinations of the central nervous system and hypophysis in 15 cases of insult and "brain death" developing in patients under conditions of application of artificial lung ventilation (ALV). Isolated death of the brain was observed to be due to discontinuation of intracerebral circulation owing to a sharp increase of intracranial pressure. Morphologically, cerebral edema, necrosis of all parts of the brain without reactive changes in neuroglia and vessels, necrosis of the 1st and 2nd cervical segments of the spinal cord, necroses in adenohypophysis, zones of demarkation in the hypophysis capsule and at the level of the 3rd and 4th cervical segments of the spinal cord, and arrest of the blood stream in the brain vessels were observed. The intensity of the morphological changes was found to depend on the duration of ALV.

Adolescent↗