[Dynamics of pulse pressure in orthostatic test: interrelationships with risk factors and involvement of the heart and vessels in elderly patients with arterial hypertension].

We studied dynamics of arterial pulse pressure (APP) during active orthostatic test (AOT) in relation to cardiac and vascular involvement in 198 elderly patients with arterial hypertension. We measured and compared parameters of hemodynamics, rate of detection of risk factors, signs of affection of the heart and vessels in subgroups with elevation of APP (n=50), lowering of APP by more than 10 mm Hg (n=50) and intermediate deviations of APP (n=98) in orthostasis. In patients with elevation of APP during AOT smoking, increased aortic stiffness, history of myocardial infarction were detected more often and risk of development of cardiovascular diseases according to SCORE system was higher than in patients with lowering of APP or absence of its dynamics.

[Pulse pressure and target organs damage in elderly patients with arterial hypertension].

For the purpose of determination of the importance of daily pulse pressure (PP-24) as the heart, vessels and kidneys affection marker in elderly patients with arterial hypertension we studied 260 patients of the age of 73.3 +/- 7.3 years.

[Cavinton forte treatment of cerebral vascular insufficiency in patients with coronary heart disease and arterial hypertension].

Using 48-h Holter monitoring of ECG and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, 28 patients (13 men, 15 women, mean age 66.6 +/- 7.7 years) with cerebral vascular insufficiency of the I-II stage in combination with chronic coronary heart disease and essential arterial hypertension have been examined.