[EFFICIENCY OF CONCOMITANT USE OF POLICOSANOL AND ROSUVASTATIN IN PATIENTS WITH STABLE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND MODERATE HEPATIC DYSFUNCTION].

The article presents the results for the study of lipid correction capacity and safety of concomitant use of policosanol and rosuvastatin compared with rosuvastatin monotherapy in patients with stable coronary artery disease and moderate hepatic dysfunction. Fifty-seven subjects aged 37 to 72 years (mean age 54.4 years +/- 6.

[Residual shunts following the correction of interatrial defects].

The mechanisms and causes of the development of residual shunts after closure of atrial septal defects were studied on the basis of the analysis of the results of 17 reoperations for this complication. It was established that errors of surgical correction were the most frequent causes of residual shunts: an attempt to close large defects with sutures, use of a graft smaller than the size of the defect, concomitant anomalies which caused the reshunting, and incomplete correction of the defect.