[Clinical forms and surgical strategy for chronic pancreatitis].

Objective: To analyze treatment outcomes in patients with various forms of chronic pancreatitis.

Material And Methods: We analyzed 434 patients with chronic pancreatitis. These ones underwent 2879 different examinations to determine morphological type of pancreatitis and dynamics of pathological process, as well as substantiate treatment strategy and functional monitoring of various organs and systems.

[Hypertensive crisis: pathogenesis, clinic, treatment].

Contemporary data on mechanisms of development, types, and clinical picture of hypertensive crisis (HC) are presented. Algorithms of rational therapy of uncomplicated and complicated HC are considered. Appropriateness of the use in HC of antihypertensive drugs with multifactorial action is stressed.

[The quantitative evaluation of mutation V617F of gene JAK2 under chronic myeloproliferative diseases].

The mutation V617F of gene JAK2 is detected in 95% of patients with genuine polycythemia, in 50% of patients with essential thrombocytemia and idiopathic myelofibrosis. The mutation V617F can be applied as a molecular marker of response to treatment in patients with chronic myeloproliferative diseases associated with this mutation. The technique of quantitative evaluation of V617F (sensitivity up to 0.