[Evaluation of the effectiveness of ultrasound shear elastography and liver steatometry].

Unlabelled: Detection of liver fibrosis and steatosis at early stages is a difficult task for clinical practice, due to the lack of early signs in routine radiation diagnostics.

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of ultrasound shear elastography and ultrasound steatometry of the liver with the use of domestic ultrasonic diagnostic system Angiodin-Sono/N-Ultra.

Materials And Methods: 264 people held ultrasound elastography and ultrasound steatometry.

[Shear wave elastography: possibilities of the differential diagnosis of focal and diffuse changes in various organs and tissues].

Ultrasound study (USS) using a shear wave elastography procedure was made in different groups of patients with morphologically verified focal and diffuse abnormalities of both superficial organs and structures and viscera. The qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the stiffness of normal and pathologic organs and tissues were estimated; there was a significance importance of differences in benign and malignant lesions. The magnitude of fibrous changes in the hepatic parenchyma was first estimated by a USS technique; there was evidence that there were significant differences in indicators in health and various liver abnormalities.

[The course of pregnancy induced by ovulation stimulation in patients with the hypogonadotropic form of amenorrhea].

The course of 60 pregnancies induced by ovulation stimulation with pergonal (in 46 cases) and lutrelef, an LHRF agonist (in 10 cases) was followed up. The authors emphasize the importance of the first therapeutic course as a preparative one, because pregnancies occurred in only 15 and 20% of patients treated with the two drugs, respectively, after it, and 25% of them failed to develop. The major pregnancy complications were due to multiple fetuses (23.

[Status of the feto-placental system in pregnant women with a history of habitual abortion during complex therapy including metabolic correction].

Fifty-two women suffering from habitual abortions, referred to high-risk group in respect of placental insufficiency development, were followed up over the course of pregnancy. Metabolic correction was added to the complex of therapy of some of these patients, the rest were administered basic therapy alone. The examinations revealed placental insufficiency signs in 78.