Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Based Ischemic Injury Pattern in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Sensu Left Ventricular Global Systolic Function.

The purpose of the study was to identify factors characterizing a decrease in LV global systolic function in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) after revascularization using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based ischemic injury pattern and laboratory parameters sensu left ventricular global systolic function. A total of 109 STEMI patients were examined. The patients underwent contrast-enhanced cardiac MRI with a 1.

[Vasoprotective effect of effective lipid-lowering therapy in patients with -segment elevation myocardial infarction].

Aim: To study the vasoprotective effects of atorvastatin depending on the achievement of the target level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in patients with -segment elevation myocardial infarction (EMI) within 48 weeks of follow-up.

Materials And Methods: Included were 112 EMI patients who received atorvastatin 20-40-80 mg. On days 7-9 from the onset of the disease, after 24 and 48 weeks, ultrasound examination of the carotid arteries with RF technology and applanation tonometry were performed, the lipid profile was determined.

Prevention of Cognitive Frailty in Patients of Older Age Groups after Open-Heart Surgery under Cardiopulmonary Bypass.

Acute change in mental state is characterized by an impaired level of consciousness, decreased attention, and cognitive changes, and has a variable course throughout its period. Delirium is common in the elderly and hospitalized patients, especially after major surgeries, and increases mortality and morbidity in patients. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between the incidence of delirium after heart surgery and some intrusive factors during surgery.

[Non-compact right ventricular myocardium - diagnostic and clinical features: A review].

Non-compact right ventricular myocardium is a rare type of cardiomyopathy, it usually results from arrested myocardial development during embryogenesis. This disease can be characterized by excessive prominent trabeculations and deep inter-trabecular recesses in the ventricular wall. It might be a component of biventricular non-compact cardiomyopathy or an isolated form.

[Optimization of cognitive rehabilitation of elderly patient with motor disorders on the basis of modern digital technologies.].

The problem of cognitive dysfunction in modern gerontological aid goes to the leading positions, complicating treatment and rehabilitation of concomitant motor disorders. The current trend in recent years is the search and development of models of cognitive rehabilitation of elderly patients on the basis of digital technology with the ability to transfer the effect on the motor and mental sphere. The literature sources of the last 5-7 years describe dozens of methods of cognitive rehabilitation, including on the basis of computer games, which demonstrate the importance of these techniques not only in improving the cognitive abilities of patients, but also in Preservation of social adaptation and daily functioning.

[Cytogenetic monitoring of the Usmansky and Hrenovskoy autochtonic pine stands].

The data on the cytogenetic monitoring of the Usmansky and Khrenovskoy autochthonic pine stands (Voronezh Region) allow their status to be rated satisfactory. The indices of the mitotic and nucleolar activity as well as of abnormal mitosis were within the normal variation range for Scotch pine. However, the occurrence of micronuclei (less than 1%) points to pathological processes starting in the stands, which necessitates urgent measures for the conservation of the Usmansky and Khrenovskoy Forests as valuable gene sources.

[Variability of the cytological parameters of Pinus sylvestris L. seeds from the unique Hrenovskoy pine forest].

Hrenovskoy pine forest is a unique island stand at the boundary of the species range of Scots pine Pinus sylvestris L. This object is of exceptional economic value, because it serves as a forest-seed base for the Voronezh oblast and some other regions of Russia; therefore, the stand and seed qualities have to be monitored constantly. The results of the first cytogenetic study of the seed progeny of P.

[Hygienic and immuno-allergologic aspects of the effects of formaldehyde and wood dust in furniture production].

The study evaluated effects of threshold sensitizing levels of formaldehyde (and its combination with woody dust) on health of furniture production workers. The results enable to conclude that MAC of formaldehyde (or combined with woody dust) increases danger of symptomatic allergies and considerably alters immune reactivity, causing atopic immune state. Formaldehyde promotes general nonspecific diseases by inducing the hyperergic reactivity that exhausts immune defense mechanisms.

[Study of the role of parents' occupation in children's mortality].

This study have been carried out to: a) investigate the prevalence of such occupational factors in parents which could be fatal to their children, and b) evaluate quantitatively the risk of mortality in infants caused by some leading diseases developed as a result of harmful occupational factors to which their parents had been exposed. During this work the data bank on infant mortality in Tallinn based on deaths registration in city archive for period 1968-1992 has been created. This bank includes the data on parents' occupation.

[The use of radioisotope study methods in cardiology practice].

Methods of radionuclide diagnosis modified with regard to the clinical problems and combined with new mathematic approaches to the processing of the data obtained make it possible to substantially enlarge the diagnostic information on myocardial contractility, central hemodynamics, the status and perfusion of the myocardium and to use it in combination with the latest research methods applied in cardiological patients.

[2-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of heart aneurysms].

The authors observed 157 patients with the myocardial infarction, of them 88 were in the acute phase of the disease. They compared different noninvasive methods of diagnosis of aneurysms. They believe that the method of sectoral scanning is the best.