OBJECTIVE The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory is a questionnaire for assessing the impact of tinnitus by quantifying psychoemotional and functional problems it causes. The objective of the study was to validate the Brazilian Portuguese translation of this questionnaire, named Questionario de Gravidade do Zumbido. METHODS The questionnaire was applied to 135 individuals with tinnitus from two audi...

Principles of early diagnosis liver failure and prevention complications after surgical treatment mechanical jaundice various etiologies were studied.In this study, the anamnesis 87 patients with treated surgically, occurrence duration jaundice, selection methods taking into account concentration bilirubin, principles pharmacotherapy improved.In addition to measures taken for main disease in pa...

Determination of the person’s psychoemotional state finds application in a variety tasks from diagnosis diseases to prevention emergency traffic situations. Given importance and where it used, there are many methods approaches exists, but most them use only one nonverbal feature, such as person's voice or facial expressions. At same time, simultaneous several signs can increase accuracy compare...

Purpose of the study: to assess psycho-emotional state and level filaggrin in blood serum pregnant women with exacerbation atopic dermatitis (AtD). Materials methods. The study included 70 AtD, 20 non-pregnant healthy women. A survey was conducted on Beck Depression Anxiety Scale. assessed by ELISA. Research results. Serum levels AtD were significantly higher than AD (p=0.007) (p=0.001). anxiet...

AIM The effect of a depression-like status formed by chronic stress on the development of Lewis lung carcinoma metastases in C57Bl/6J mice was investigated. Two types of acute stress (restraint and social stress) were used for comparison. METHODS The depression-like status was induced by eight-week exposure to repeated but unpredictable stressors (chronic mild stress model) and was assessed i...