NEUROCIRCULATORY ASTHENIA IN PATIENTS WIT H FOCAL CHRONIC INFECTIONS - MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT

Clinical manifestations of neurocirculatory asthenia (NA) were analyze d in 604 patients with associated chronic focal infection. It is shown that the latter infection produces negative effects on clinical sympt ons of NA, its course, temporary disability and effectiveness of treat ment. Vegetative reactivity and vegetative activity in NA patients wit h the infection were affected to a greater degree than in NA patients without the focal infection. The role of efferent impulses from the na sopharynx reflexogenic zone in the genesis of clinical specificity and vegetative regulation defects in NA patients is discussed.