[Preoperative stress testing in patients prior to vascular surgery].

Myocardial infarction is the leading cause of mortality during peripheral artery surgery. The review summarizes the data on cardiac event risk stratification in angiosurgical patients by preoperative stress testing. The prognostic value of positive and negative results is described.

[Prosthetic repair of the aorta with a cadaveric homograft for infection of bifurcated synthetic vascular prosthesis].

Infection of arterial vascular grafts is a rare but utterly severe complication in vascular surgery. Therapeutic policy in patients with graft infection has not been standardized, to be determined individually. One of the variants of surgical treatment is considered to be repeat aortic repair using a cadaveric graft.

[Surgical treatment of a patient with a ruptured Crawford type III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm].

Described herein is a clinical case report regarding surgical treatment of a patient presenting with a ruptured Crawford type III thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm. The patient was subjected to prosthetic repair of the thoracoabdominal aorta by the Coselli technique, as well as reduction of the aneurysmal sac in the thoracic and abdominal portions according to the authors' technique. The operation was carried out with neither connecting the patient to a heart-lung machine nor use of pharmacological protection of the visceral organs.

[Evaluation of the reactogenicity and immunogenic potency of combined vaccine "Bubo-Kok" in the immunization of children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and viral hepatitis B].

Combined vaccine "Bubo-Kok" is characterized by safety and high immunological activity. The number of postvaccinal reactions in children aged 1 and 2 years, immunized with vaccine "Bubo-Kok", was not statistically different from those in groups of children immunized with adsorbed DPT vaccine, as well with such vaccine in combination with vaccine against hepatitis B. After the completion of the primary course of immunization 100% of children had protective antibody titers against diphtheria, tetanus and hepatitis B.

[Reactions to and immunogenic properties of the combined vaccine Bubo-M for immunization of children against diphtheria, tetanus and viral hepatitis B].

Bubo-M, the first Russian combined vaccine, was found to have low reactogenicity. The difference between the number of postvaccinal reactions in the group of children immunized with Bubo-M (25.9%) and those in the group of children who had been simultaneously injected into different sites of the body with ADS-M toxoid (adsorbed DT toxoid with reduced antigen content) and hepatitis B vaccine (26.