[Efficiency of microsurgical subinguinal varicocelectomy in patients with increased level of sperm DNA fragmentation].

Aim: To evaluate the effect of microsurgical subinguinal varicocelectomy on sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) in patients with elevated SDF levels (more than 15%) and clinical varicocele.

Materials And Methods: A single-center, retrospective, observational, uncontrolled study was carried out. The results of a survey of 33 patients with clinical varicocele, infertility or recurrent miscarriage and sperm DNA fragmentation of more than 15% were analyzed.

Are Endomyocardial Ventricular Biopsies Useful for Assessing Myocardial Fibrosis?

Myocardial fibrosis is an important factor in the progression of cardiovascular diseases. However, there is still no universal lifetime method of myocardial fibrosis assessment that has a high prognostic significance. The aim of the study was to determine the significance of ventricular endomyocardial biopsies for the assessment of myocardial fibrosis and to identify the severity of myocardial fibrosis in different cardiovascular diseases.

[Prediction of myocardial contractility after coronary bypass surgery according to preoperative contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and echocardiography].

Objective: To establish the criteria for reversibility of myocardial contractility in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) after coronary artery bypass grafting considering data of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and echocardiography.

Material And Methods: We studied the results of coronary artery bypass grafting in 186 patients with CAD complicated by reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (<30%). All patients underwent cardiac MRI and echocardiography before surgery.

Reactivity of Ts and At oxides and oxyhydrides with a gold surface from periodic DFT calculations.

Adsorption energies, , of oxides and oxyhydrides of the superheavy element (SHEs) Ts and of its lighter homologue At on the gold surface are predicted on the basis of relativistic periodic density functional theory calculations AMS BAND software. The following compounds were considered: MO, MO, MOO, and MO(OH) (where M = At and Ts). The aim of this study is to support "one-atom-at-a-time" gas-phase chromatography experiments on reactivity/volatility of SHEs.

[Status epilepticus in a pregnant patient with a previously unrecognized POLG-associated disease].

-associated diseases are rare causes of pharmacoresistant epilepsy and status epilepticus, especially in adult patients. Phenotypic and genotypic variability in these conditions causes the complexity of their diagnosis. In the study, we report a case of a 33-year-old female patient who developed recurrent convulsive status epilepticus with focal clonic onset at the week 22/23 of pregnancy.