[Morphofunctional characteristics of autonomic disorders in patients with chronic alcohol intoxication].

Clinico-physiological and biochemical methods were used in 136 patients with chronic alcoholism and morphological investigations of the cingulum and hypothalamic region in 40 alcoholized rabbits with the purpose of evaluating vegetative disorders. The severity of anatomo-clinical changes depended on the stage of the neurotoxis process and duration of alcohol abuse. As alcohol intoxication advanced functional disorders were followed by organic.