[Almaty club "KAIRAT" young football players' health].

The aim of the investigation was to study young football players' health. The study was conducted on 161 football players (mean age 12.3) of six children football teams of Almaty club "KAIRAT" during the competition period.

[The characteristics of left ventricular myocardial remodeling in patients with chronic renal disease, and the effects of spironolactone therapy].

The work reflects modern concepts of the pathogenesis of myocardial and vascular remodelling in a chronic renal disease. Types of changes in left ventricular geometry and the condition of the diastolic function in patients at pre-dialysis stage of a chronic renal disease and patients on program hemodialysis. Dynamic changes in left ventricular parameters under the influence of therapy with spironolactone, an aldosterone receptor blocker, are described.