METHOD OF PREDICTING SEVERITY OF COURSE OF TICK-BORNE INFECTIOUS DISEASES Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A61B10/00 G01N33/48 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, namely to neurology. In order to predict severity of tick-borne infection course totality of results of clinic and laboratory analyses is estimated at the onset of disease. Determined is sum of diagnostic coefficients assigned to most pathognomic symptoms of disease: duration of incubation period, respiratory disorder, depression of consciousness, leukocytic index, intensity of central pareses of extremities, bulbar syndrome, fibrin-monomer blood complexes, percentage ratio of blood B-lymphocytes, titre of specific G-immunoglobulins to tick-borne encephalitis virus. If sum is (+)7 points and higher light and medium-severe course of tick-borne infections is predicted, (-)12 points and lower - development of unfavourable outcome of disease is predicted. In case of intermediate values of sums of said diagnostic coefficients are obtained, when one of thresholds is not reached, prognosis for disease course is determined during repeated analyses.

EFFECT: method allows to evaluate patients' state in disease dynamics objectively, trace main tendencies of pathologic process and predict outcome of tick-borne neuron-infections at initial stage of disease.

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