[Sex hormones and cerebral hemodynamics in men with cerebrovascular insufficiency]

The authors determined content of steroid hormones (testosterone, estradiol) and gonadotropic pituitary hormones (follicle stimulating, luteinizing, prolactin) in blood plasma by means of radioimmunological assay and evaluated the state of cerebral hemodynamics by results of zonal rheoencephalography in 77 patients with initial manifestation of circulatory brain insufficiency, transient disorders of the cerebral circulation and in the restorative period of stroke against the background of cerebral atherosclerosis. Established was a significant correlation between the content steroid sex hormones and the main quantitative values of the rheoencephalograms of the above patients.