FEATURES OF CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF ETHANOL ATAXIA

The abuse of alcoholic beverages and the consequences of its impact on the internal organs and nervous system, remains an urgent medical and social problem for our country for a long time. Alcoholism has an extremely negative effect on the functioning of the cerebellar system, causing dynamic and static-locomotor ataxia and damage to the peripheral nervous system, which aggravates the impaired function of walking and coordination. Due to the concomitant emotional and cognitive disorders, age-related features in individuals suffering from alcoholism, the diagnosis of clinical manifestations of ataxia and comorbid cerebral, visceral pathology has a number of features that need to be considered for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient.