[The correction of dysipidemia in patients presenting with coronary heart disease in the course of the spa and resort-based treatment].

A total of 60 patients presenting with coronary heart disease (CHD) were treated at the Kislovodsk military health resort. The objective of the work was to develop a non-medicamental therapeutic modality for their rehabilitative treatment and correction of disordered lipid metabolism. The balneotherapeutic treatment influencing one of the etiopathogenetic mechanisms underlying CHD resulted in the well-apparent tendency toward a decrease of the degree of dyslipidemia (reduction in the total cholesterol level, cholesterol of low density lipoproteins, and atherogenicity index in the absence of clinically significant adverse events.

[The effect of pharmacological preparations on the regulation of growth hormone secretion].

The authors have assessed the effects of 7 metabolic and 5 neutral drugs and their combinations on the basal blood concentration of the growth hormone (GH) and on the sensitivity of GH-regulating centers to homeostatic glucose inhibition. No significant changes in GH basal level were revealed. Nacom and a combination of vitamins E and C reduced the threshold sensitivity to glucose inhibition of the GH, whereas miscleron and trental elevated this threshold sensitivity.

[The under- and overdiagnosis of primary skin melanomas].

The analysis of clinico-morphological data on 10123 cases of tumor and malformation of the skin seen at The N. N. Petrov Research Institute of Oncology of the USSR Ministry of Health showed primary skin melanoma to be underdiagnosed in 30.