[Cerebral syndrome in chronic nonspecific lung diseases]

An analysis of the results of clinico-electrophysiological examinations of 89 patients suffering from chronic nonspecific inflammatory diseases of the lungs with involvement of the nervous system is presented. The clinical syndromes of the nervous system affections in patients with chronic inflammatory pulmonary diseases are specified. Of importance in the pathogenesis of these affections are progressing hypoxia, intoxication, edema of the brain and the meninges, and the effects of the infectious factors on the vascular walls and the nervous cells.