[SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ELDERLY AND SENILE PATIENTS FOR AFFECTION OF CARDIAC VALVES].

Operations on the open heart, of them in 62 (32.9%)--the valves prosthesis, were conducted on the base of Clinical Treatment-Diagnosis Centre "Simedgroup" of Ivano-Frankivskiy National Medical University in 2012 - 2015 yrs in 188 patients. Hemodynamically significant failures of a mitral valve and/or the aortal valve were considered as indications for the operative treatment conduction.

[Morphological changes of cryopreserved erythrocytes in heart surgery patients under effects of continuous perfusion].

Cryopreserved erythrocytes with the period of storage from 5 to 12 months were studied in 10 cardiosurgical patients under conditions of scanning electron microscopy. It was established that among unfrozen erythrocytes of patients with rheumatic diseases of the heart there were (84.25 +/- 0.