[Cerebral pathology in inactive rheumatism].

Aim: Characterization of cerebral pathology in inactive phase of rheumatism.
Materials and Methods: Clinical, experimental psychological examinations were performed in 110 rheumatic patients with inactive disease. Computer tomography of the head was carried out in 45 patients.
Results: Psychic defects were absent only in 2.73% of the examinees. The rest had different neurotic symptoms manifest as panic attacks (> 50% of cases) or mildpsychoorganic shifts (60.91% of cases). Computer tomography of the brain has revealed hypodensive foci, deformed subarachnoid spaces and cerebral ventricles, hydrocephalia in 66.67% of the patients. These occurred more frequently in patients with psychoorganic syndrome or valvular heart diseases.
Conclusion: Treatment and rehabilitation of rheumatic patients should also include measures to correct psychic and cerebral abnormalities frequently present in such patients.