[Effect of the vertebral syndrome in cervical osteochondrosis on the course of I-IIA stage hypertension and cerebral electrical activity and hemodynamics].

Examination included two groups of patients with I-IIA stage essential hypertension combined with cervical osteochondrosis: with and without the vertebral syndrome. It revealed significant polymorphism of clinical symptoms, more severe course of vascular pathology, disorders of cerebral hemodynamics with decreased pulse blood filling, increased tone of arterioles, venules and veins, signs of disturbances of venous outflow and features of bioelectric brain activity indicating dysfunction of the middle structures in patients with the vertebral syndrome of cervical osteochondrosis. Since the pathogenic significance of cervical osteochondrosis is mostly realized in the presence of the vertebral syndrome, therapeutic policy should involve both antihypertensive agents and measures that control vertebrogenic pathology as well as medicamentous correction of hemodynamic cerebral disturbances.