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The article is dedicated to an urgent issue of modern pediatrics and neurology — complex treatment of stroke consequences in children. The article details etiological aspects, pathophysiological mechanisms and clinical peculiarities of stroke consequences in children, the primary among which are asthenic syndrome (73–86% of the patients), movement disorders (33–58%), cognitive disorders (60%), paroxysmal conditions (30%), sensory disorders (14%), emotional-volitional and behavioral disorders (17–38%), vegetative dysfunction syndrome (60–74%), pain syndrome (53–74%) and syncopal conditions (12%). The article details the main spheres of complex rehabilitation of children with stroke consequences, including use of innovative medical rehabilitation technologies — kinesitherapy, dynamic proprioceptive correction, mechanotherapy using robotic systems, physiotherapy and drug correction. The article demonstrates that diagnosis and treatment of stroke consequences in children is a difficult problem, which requires a differential complex approach in order to improve effectiveness of both drug therapy and rehabilitation and quality of life of the patients.

The article is devoted to the actual problem of modern pediatrics and neurology ― a comprehensive diagnosis and correction of sleep disorders in children. Detail the features of the clinical manifestations of sleep disorders in childhood (insomnia and parasomnia), great attention is paid to sleep apnea syndrome as a risk factor for somatic and psychopathological disorders in children. Highlight the current capabilities of complex instrumental diagnosis of sleep disorders with the use of highly effective methods of polysomnography and pulse oximetry. The actual dimensions as non-drug and drug treatment of sleep disorders in children, taking into account the pathogenetic features of their occurrence. From the standpoint of evidence-based medicine demonstrate efficient methods of herbal medicine, developed on the basis of traditional Chinese recipes, as well as modern nootropics and magnesium preparations. It is shown that sleep disorders in children not only lead to a deterioration of emotional mood, cognitive function, health and school performance, but also are associated with increasing risk of somatic disorders, which determines the need for timely diagnosis and comprehensive differentiated medical and psychological data correction of pathological conditions, taking into account the neurophysiological and biochemical mechanisms of their development, as well as polymorphism of clinical manifestations, in order to increase the effectiveness of treatment and quality of life of patients.

The article is dedicated to the relevant aspects of complex diagnosis and treatment of cognitive disorders in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBI) sequelae in the long term. Traumatic brain injury is one of the most important issues of the modern neuroscience due to high incidence rate and incapacitation severity. A steady increase in TBI sequelae, many of which are cognitive disorders (cerebro-asthenic and psychoorganic syndromes, post‑traumatic dementia) accompanied by various symptoms of vegetative dysfunction syndrome, has been observed in children in the recent years. The factors affecting severity of TBI sequelae in children are severity of the injury, age at the injury, time elapsed since the injury and localization of the lesion. Disturbances of memory and attention (75%), hand-eye coordination, cerebro-asthenic disorders (88%) and chronic headaches (95%) are prevalent in the structure of cognitive disorders after a minor TBI. Severer cognitive dysfunctions accompanied by pathological neurological symptoms resulting in difficulties in learning, self‑service and negatively affecting social adaptation in general are observed in 94-100% of the children having suffered moderate or severe TBI. The article discusses the modern methods of complex diagnosis and pathogenetically substantiated techniques of drug therapy of cognitive disorders in patients with traumatic brain injury sequelae in detail.

The article covers in detail the problems of diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment in children with cerebral palsy. Diagnosis of cognitive disorders, cerebral palsy is a challenging task, due to various combinations of these disorders with physical, speech and sensory disorders, which requires a differentiated approach. The authors have developed a differential-diagnostic criteria to distinguish between impaired mental function and mental retardation with cerebral palsy, as well as the proposed comprehensive system of rehabilitation of cognitive disorders, including medical and social, and psychological-pedagogical correction, which is aimed at compensating for cognitive deficits, the formation of mental functions, and the restoration of the mechanisms of social integration of children with cerebral palsy.

The problem of status epilepticus (SE) in infancy and early childhood is very important due to a high occurrence of SE, serious consequences of prolonged seizures for the child's developing brain, atypical variants of SE accompanying specific age-dependant forms of epilepsy in the first year of life (infantile epileptic encephalopathies), high rate of pharmacoresistant forms and severe disability of patients. Out of the total of 407 pediatric patients with revealed cases of SE 267 children had the SE onset before 3 years of age (65,6%), and 147 patients (36,1%) had SE onset in infancy. In the structure of ES at infancy and early childhood 38,6% of cases were represented by epileptic encephalopathies, 27% — by focal forms of epilepsy, 15,7% — hereditary neurodegenerations, 14,2% — acute symptomatic SE and 4,5% — isolated febrile SE. SE in infancy was treated with benzodiasepines — diazepam (0,5 mg/kg per rectum, i. m. or i. v.), midazolam (0,15–0,4 mg/kg i. v. in bolus, supporting infusion — 1–3 µg/kg/min), and valproates (convulex) in the initial dose of 10–25 mg/kg followed by a supporting infusion of 1–4 mg/kg/hour. The refractory cases of SE were treated with sodium oxybate (100–150 mg/kg with the speed of 400 mg/min), propofol (3 mg/kg i. v. in bolus followed by a supporting infusion — 100 µg/kg/min), sodium thiopental (4 mg/kg followed after 2 minutes by an infusion of 0,2 mg/kg/min).