[Soporous-comatose states in patients with acute pneumonia]

On the basis of a clinical, laboratory and pathomorphological study the author describes soporous--comatose states in 26 patients among 300 with acute pneumonia. In acute lung diseases, there are symptoms of multiple lesions of the nervous system on the background of hypoxia and intoxication which evokes, liquid-dynamical and circulatory brain disorders. Progressive brain oxygen insufficiency conditions appearance of neurological disturbances from general cerebral and functional and as the state becomes more profound up to an occurence of comatose states.