Serum phosphorus level is related to degree of clinical response to up-titration of heart failure pharmacotherapy.

Serum phosphorus abnormalities may pose a risk on the cardiovascular system. In heart failure (HF) phosphorus homeostatic mechanisms are altered and may be modified by modern HF therapy. The impact of therapy optimization on phosphorus abnormalities and related outcome remains unknown.

[Effect of Rilmenidine(Tenaxum) on the activity of the autonomic nervous system in patients with hypertension and asthma].

Application of beta-adrenoreceptor blockers in asthmatic patients increases broncho-constriction, and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors may induce cough. In either case life quality of asthmatics may deteriorate. Increased sympathetic activity plays a significant role in the development and maintenance of arterial hypertension.

[Cardiogenic shock in the course of myocardial infarction--the results of treatment during hospitalization and in long-term follow-up].

Unlabelled: Cardiogenic shock develops in 5-15% of patients hospitalised with acute myocardial infarction. It is responsible for more than a half of all hospital deaths with survival rate of about 20%. Conventional medical therapy with use of adrenergic, vasoactive, inotropic and thrombolytic agents has failed to improve survival.

[Tumor necrosis factor receptors sTNF-RI and sTNF-RII in advanced chronic heart failure].

Unlabelled: The inflammatory process in chronic heart failure (CHF) is the result of dysbalance between the function of inflammatory and natural antiinflammatory mediators. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) is increased in patients with severe CHF. Two soluble proteins, the extracellular domains of the TNF receptors (sTNF-RI and sTNF-RII) inhibit the TNF-alpha biological effect.

[ST-segment shift in V1-V3 in patients with inferior wall infarction depend on angiographic localization of right artery occlusion].

Two electrocardiographic types of inferior wall infarct were isolated based on angiographic localization of right coronary artery occlusion. In proximal occlusion of RCA before right ventricular branch there is no depression or more rarely elevation of ST segment in V1-V3 especially in V1 (the first morphological type). ST segment depression in V1-V3 (second morphological type) is characteristic for distal segment of RCA occlusion.