Experience with mexidol in neurological practice

Author:
O.A. GROMOVA, I.YU. TORSHIN, L.V. STAKHOVSKAYA, E.G. PEPELYAEV, V.A. SEMENOV, A.G. NAZARENKO

Federal Research Center «Informatics and Management», Institute of Pharmacoinformatics, RAS, Moscow, Russia; Research Institute of
Central Research Hospital of the Russian National Research Medical University. N.I. Pirogova, Moscow, Russia; FGBOU VO «Kemerovo
State Medical University» MH RF, Kemerovo, Russia; Federal State Autonomous Institution «National Medical Research Center for
Neurosurgery named after Academician N.N. Burdenko» of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Summary:
Antihypoxic, antioxidant and nootropic effects of mexidol contribute to the improvement of patients with cerebrovascular pathology. The results of clinical studies show that the sequential scheme of using mexidol (first i.v. or i.m., then per os) is effective in the complex therapy of ischemic diseases of the brain, vascular surgery, therapy and rehabilitation of patients with degenerativedystrophic changes of the spine, treatment of neurodegenerative pathology (including multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and diabetic polyneuropathy), infectious neuropathies (ARVI, herpes, tick-borne encephalitis), neuropsychological and autonomic disorders.

Keywords: neurotransmission, GABA, acetylcholine, antihypoxants, nootropics, data mining, mexidol.