[Assessment of the phasic course of alcoholism]

A new form of representation of clinical data concerning a state of alcoholic patients during different periods of consumption and withdrawal of alcohol was considered according to factor quantitative data expression. Metalcoholic clinical signs, i.e. clinical manifestations of the changed reactivity to alcohol withdrawal were analysed. Separate symptoms and phases are estimated in terms of factors loading. The factors were considered as some primary components of symptoms and phasic states (so called primary disorders), because they show a vector of pathophysiologic processes in the course of the disease development. This form reflect both a clinical state of a patient and specificity of the disease course as a diagnostic physician's image during process of the making of diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. This might be widely used in therapeutic matching of patients as well as in validization of classification and systematization of alcoholism. In terms of scientific application the method provides modelling of the disease.