Blood pressure control in treated hypertensive patients in daily practice of Latvian family physicians.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE. The aim of this study was to evaluate blood pressure (BP) control level in treated hypertensive patients in Latvia and to compare their characteristics according to the adequacy of BP control. MATERIALS AND METHODS.

[Radiokinetocariography--a noninvasive introscopic method of studying the function of the right ventricle in patients with chronic bronchitis].

Registration of the reflected SHF electromagnetic waves directed to cardiac chambers served the basis for a new technique of cardiokinetoradiography (CKRG) described in the present paper. The technique promotes a phasic analysis of the right heart (RH) performance, evaluation of the RH anterior wall rate and an indirect estimation of the systolic pressure in the pulmonary artery. Prolonged relaxation including isometric relaxation, elevated Mancini isovolumic index are suggested to be early subclinical signs of the RH dysfunction in patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis.

[Radiokinetocardiography: our first experience in studying the movements of the anterior and lateral walls of the left ventricle in patients with myocardial infarct].

Radiokinetocardiography (RKCG), a noninvasive introscopic technique for studying the heart structures by detecting the echoes from the heart of the electromagnetic ultra-high-frequency signal, has been developed. RKCG was used to record the movements of the anterior and lateral walls of the left ventricle in 14 patients with large-focal myocardial infarction localized in the area indicated and in 30 normal persons. The patients were examined at weeks 4-5 of the disease.

[Results using a new method of rapid electrocardiographic diagnosis].

A simplified adjusted system of recordings from 4 electrocardiographic leads (ECG-4) and a standard analysis procedure, based on manual measurement of 18 criteria by a specially-trained operator (nurse), using a standard ruler, has been tried in order to make ECG screening more accessible and work out a uniform procedure of electrocardiographic screening. The assessment of the criteria used has demonstrated their high specificity (above 95%) in 145 normal subjects as well as good results of quick diagnosis. ECG-4, used in a population screening of 2458 people, detected ECG changes in 18.