[Myocardial deformation and rotation in hypertensive men with different degrees of left ventricular hypertrophy].

Purpose: to assess parameters of myocardial deformation and rotation in untreated hypertensive men depending on presence and degree of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH).

Material And Methods: We examined 98 hypertensive men aged 51 (46-58) years. Examination included clinical evaluation, conventional transthoracic echocardiography, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, routine laboratory screening.

[Diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension].

The article discusses the pathogenesis of arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus and syndrome X as well as problems of the treatment of hypertension complicated by diabetes mellitus.

[Outpatient 24-hr monitoring of arterial blood pressure in women with arterial hypertension during postmenopausal period].

The article is dedicated to a pressing problem of arterial hypertension in the postmenopausal period. Our objective in this study was identifying of special features of the course of arterial hypertension by data secured from a 24-hr monitoring of AH in those women in the post-menopausal period of both surgical and natural genesis. Those women with a surgical menopause had a higher level of AH in the diastole, with that in the systole being the same as in the control group in spite of the fact that the former women were at about the same age, as evidenced by results of the study made.

[Treatment of mild and moderate hypertension with enalapril (multicenter study of enap and enap N in Ukraine)].

Aim: Assessment of efficiency and safety of enalapril (enap) and its combination with hydrochlorotiaside (enap-N).

Materials And Methods: 127 patients with mild and moderate blood hypertension entered an open non-comparative multicenter trial. 60 of them received enap (group 1), 67--enap N (group 2).

[The evaluation of the late results of destruction of the atrioventricular junction in patients with drug-resistant atrial fibrillation].

Atrial fibrillation is a commonly seen form of disordered cardiac rhythm. Catheter-radio frequency ablation of the atrioventricular junction was found out to be an effective approach to control heart rate in continued drug-refractory cardiac fibrillation permitting the quality of the patients' life to be improved. The best results are achievable in patients presenting with chronic cardiac fibrillation.

[The prognosis of work capacity in patients with rheumatic defects after heart operations].

A study of rheumatic patients after operations on the heart indicates that working capacity prognosis is determined not only by the severity of the somatic state but also by social and psychological aspects. The authors revealed sociopsychological and clinical prerequisites of high and low working adaptation that allow to make a concrete working prognosis and establish rehabilitation programs for the individual rheumatic patients undergoing heart surgery.

[The "quality of life" of rheumatism patients following heart operations].

Life quality indices related to work trends, level of work adaptation, social psychological personality features, severity of somatic condition were evaluated in 216 patients with rheumatism operated on for heart disease. The revealed causes and mechanisms of life quality decline are important for evaluation of working prognosis and development of rehabilitation programs for patients with rheumatism following operations on the heart.

[The clinico-psychological correlations and work adaptation of rheumatism patients operated on for heart defects].

Altogether 345 patients with rheumatic fever operated on for heart disease were examined for clinicopsychological correlations and their importance for patients' adaptation to work. Cardiovascular function was estimated with the aid of clinical and instrumental methods (ECG, echocardiography, bicycle ergometry). The psychological personality traits were examined by Quetelet's 16-factorial questionnaire, the type of the attitude towards disease by a personality questionnaire developed by the V.

[Psychological characteristics of the personality and the attitude to work of patients subjected to surgery on account of rheumatic heart disease].

The authors studied the psychological peculiarities of personality, attitude towards the disease and orientation for work in 124 patients operated on in connection with rheumatic heart disease. The psychological peculiarities of personality were examined by means of a 16-factor questionnaire suggested by Kettell and the type of attitude towards the disease by a questionnaire prepared by the V. M.

[Oxygen and hemodynamic support for physical load in neurocirculatory dystonia].

Spiroergometric examinations were carried out in 148 students with neurocirculatory dystonia. The adaptation reaction of the cardiorespiratory system to different load strength was studied. The authors used a complex approach with evaluation of the functional parameters of the heart, indices of central hemodynamics and analysis of respiratory gases.

[Functional possibilities and physical capacity of patients with mitral lesions of the heart].

A total of 231 women with mitral valvular disease at the stage of compensation were examined. An analysis of the complex of clinico-instrumental values of the functional state showed that the level of lowered physical working capacity was associated not only with disease type but also with functional reserves of the adaptation to exercise. Insufficiency of compensatory-adaptation reactions and lowered resources were revealed in the patients with a decreased tolerance to physical exercise.