Non-Target Hemangioma Size Reduction After Bleomycin-Lipiodol Embolization of Primary Hepatic Hemangioma.

Purpose: To evaluate changes in non-target hepatic hemangiomas, which are neither subjected to embolization nor targeted for treatment, following selective bleomycin-lipiodol transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) of a giant hepatic hemangioma.

Materials And Methods: This single-center retrospective study included 24 patients with non-target hepatic hemangiomas distinct from primary giant hemangiomas treated with selective bleomycin-lipiodol TACE between 2009 and 2022. The size and volume of the lesions were assessed using computed tomography scans obtained before treatment, and at 6, 12 and 24 months.

[REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF GIRLS-TEENAGERS - AS A MEDICAL-SOCIAL PROBLEM OF KAZAKHSTAN].

The purpose of the study - to evaluate the gynecological and somatic pathology of Almaty teenage girls in order to improve measures to improve the reproductive health of this category of the population. As research materials, statistical data on the prevalence of gynecological pathology among teenage girls in Almaty were used, who sought medical help from the Almaty City Center for Human Reproduction (SCCR) and reporting forms from the Almaty city branch of the Republican Center for Electronic Health in 2013 to 2018. In work were applied: analytical, epidemiological, statistical techniques.

Study of the possibility of introduction of Kazakhstan NGO-based rapid HIV testing procedures.

Introduction: New initiatives presented by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS , such as 90-90-90, test and treat, preventive treatment, and best international practices related to the introduction of rapid human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing in clinics, and field conditions, including self-testing, predetermined the introduction of NGO-based rapid HIV testing in the Republic of Kazakhstan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This work presents the results of a comprehensive study conducted about the possible introduction of NGO-based rapid HIV testing in the country. It should be noted that 32,573 HIV infections have been diagnosed in Kazakhstan (prevalence of 117.