Hysterectomy currently occupies one of the leading places among obstetric and gynecological surgeries and is one of the highly effective and sometimes the only method of treating various diseases of the female genital organs.  Quite often, however, hysterectomy results not only in the elimination of the cause of disease, but also in the development of complications that reduce the quality of life of patients. More and more attention is being paid to neurological complications, which is obviously due to improved diagnostic capabilities, as well as the results of recent research on the pathogenesis and treatment of neurological disorders. Only recently the scientists have begun to think about the true causes  of one of the most important neurologic complications of hysterectomy, namely chronic postoperative pain.The review describes in detail the main neurological disorders that develop after hysterectomy: chronic postoperative pain, traumatic neuroma, residual ovarian syndrome  as possible causes of chronic pain, mononeuropathies, sexual and sleep disorders, decreased cognitive and motor functions, lower  urinary tract and bowel dysfunction.  Considerable  attention is given to the mechanisms of neurological complications and the relationship between the surgery and emotional disturbances in women.

Aim: to evaluate effectiveness of a personalized comprehensive rehabilitation program in patients after surgical treatment of endometrial cancer (EC).Material and Methods. There were enrolled 61 patients of reproductive age (44.46 ± 3.84 years) after radical treatment of endometrioid adenocarcinoma by stratifying subjects into 2 groups: group I – «active» rehabilitation with a comprehensive program of restorative measures (n = 29), group II – «passive» rehabilitation with standard management of the postoperative period in accordance with volume and timeframe determined by clinical recommendations (n = 32). Quality of life (QоL) was determined using the following questionnaires: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy for Patients with Endometrial Cancer (FACT-En), Kupperman-Uvarova Modified Menopausal Index (MMI), The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The program was based on four patient visits expected to occur at week 1 as well as 3, 6, 12 months after surgery, respectively.Results. In was found that 12 months post-surgery MMI in group I was decreased from 40.75 ± 5.69 down to 26.45 ± 4.84 score corresponding to mild postovariectomy syndrome (POES), whereas in group II – from 39.62 ± 5.37 to 36.15 ± 4.06 score estimated as moderate POES. In addition, at this time point patients in group I were noted to virtually fully recover sexual function assessed by FSFI (24.93 ± 2.86 score), whereas in group II it was at markedly lower level (13.39 ± 2.55 score; p < 0.001). According to the HADS, all subjects had level exceeding score of 11 at week 1 post-surgery corresponding to clinically significant anxiety and depression. Moreover, 6- and 12-months post-surgery subjects in group I lacked significant symptoms (score < 7 for each parameter), whereas in group II 12-month follow-up demonstrated subclinical level of anxiety and depression. According to the FACT-En, subjects in group I vs. group II revealed markedly higher QoL on visit 4 reaching 141.31 ± 6.45 and 112.84 ± 6.48 score, respectively.Conclusion. The «active» personalized comprehensive rehabilitation program proposed here demonstrated high efficacy in EC patients after radical surgery compared to subjects underwent standard management in rehabilitation period. Use of the program during 12 months post-surgery allowed to minimize negative manifestations related to POES, positively impacted psycho-emotional status, significantly improved sexual function as well as QoL. Organizing comprehensive rehabilitation in post-surgical EC patients should be considered as one of high-priority approaches in public healthcare.

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Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of changes in the legal framework that regulates medical rehabilitation (MR) in the Russian Federation.Material and methods. We analyzed the valid Order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation of June 31, 2020 No. 788n “Organization of medical rehabilitation of adults”, which came into legal power on January 1, 2021. It was proposed for public discussion on the introduction of amendments (project of amendments). The changes proposed in the project were compared with the original text of the document. Besides, other legal documents on the organization of medical rehabilitation were analyzed.Results. Order No. 788n regulates the stages of MR, specifies the formation and realization of an individual plan for a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation team based on the evaluation by Rehabilitation Routing Scale. The document includes in-house protocols of profile inpatient and outpatient departments of medical institutions, standards for doctor’s offices equipment, organization of day-time inpatient department, and regulations for MR centers. The project of amendments contains a variant of involvement of the existing additional Groups 1 and 2 medical divisions for the organization of MR, and limitation for the Stage 2 of MR in inpatient settings, which is now possible only for patients who need 24-hour care.Conclusion. The proposed changes have evolutionary character. A lot of issues in the regulatory framework of MR remain unsolved. It is necessary to improve the state policy for MR and perform further clinical studies of its benefits.

Introduction. Radical surgery for recurrent atypical endometrial hyperplasia (AEH) allows to fully assess pathological changes of the endometrium, a risk of concomitant cancer, and provides insight into proposing a definitive therapy. However, after ovariohysterectomy, young women develop postovariectomy syndrome (POES) and psychosexual disorders profoundly decreasing quality of life (QoL) that requires rehabilitation measures.Aim: to conduct a comparative analysis of QoL in patients with recurrent AEH after hysterectomy with bilateral salpingooophorectomy based on the management tactics in the rehabilitation period.Materials and Methods. In the second part of the prospective randomized comparative study, 58 women diagnosed with recurrent AEH (mean patient age 44.25 ± 3.40 years) underwent a one-year-follow-up, divided into 2 groups according to the management tactics in the rehabilitation period: group 1 – 27 patients with "active" rehabilitation according to the complex rehabilitation and therapeutic protocol proposed by our research group; group 2 – 31 patients with "passive" rehabilitation. To assess the overall QoL, a questionnaire the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy for Patients with Endometrial Cancer (FACT-En) was used, analyzing a level of anxiety and depressive disorders with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) as well as manifestations of surgical menopause using Kupperman–Uvarova modified menopausal index (MMI) and sexual function – with the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) on day 3–7 as well as 3, 6, 12 months after surgical treatment.Results. It was found that inter-group difference was significant in the FACT-En questionnaire observed as early as by 3 months of the study, whereas by 12 months the QoL score in the "active" rehabilitation group increased by 39.36 points based on the FACT-En questionnaire, but only by 17.38 points in the "passive" rehabilitation cohort (p < 0.001). Analyzing Kupperman–Uvarova MMI, the degree of manifested surgical menopause decreased over time in both groups. However, as early as 6 and 12 months after onset, “active” rehabilitation was featured with surgical menopause parameters corresponding to a mild course, whereas “passive” rehabilitation was associated with moderate severity (p < 0.001). Over the entire follow-up period, "active" rehabilitation group was shown to have anxiety parameters decreased from 10.77 ± 2.36 score (subclinical anxiety) to 4.55 ± 1.50 score (normal range), whereas at 6 and 12 months of follow-up the "passive" rehabilitation group was found to have anxiety parameters corresponding to subclinical manifestations. Over time, sexual function improved in both groups, however, the parameters in the "active" vs. "passive" rehabilitation group were significantly higher as early as 3 months after the onset, with similar pattern observed at 6 and 12 months (p < 0.05).Conclusion. The set of rehabilitation measures proposed by us improves psycho-emotional state, corrects POES manifestations, improves sexual function of AEH patients, thereby increasing overall QoL. This is comparable to the results of medical rehabilitation of women after radical treatment with endometrial cancer.