[Clinical efficacy of calcium channel blockers slow the third generation of lercanidipine in the treatment of patients with arterial hypertension and metabolic disorders (review)].

Arterial hypertension is the most common risk factor in patients with metabolic disorders. In the selection of antihypertensive therapy it is necessary to consider not only the anti-hypertensive and organoprotective effects of drugs and their metabolic effects, which has prognostic value. Calcium antaginists, along.

[Characteristics of heart rate variability in healthy adolescents and male adults].

The primary purpose of the present article is to investigate the comparative characteristics of heart rate variability in healthy adolescents and male adults. The study was carried out on 41 male adolescents aged 15-16 years and 73 male adults aged 18-22 years. For assessment of heart rate variability statistical data of variability and spectral analysis of heart rate were estimated.

[The prognostic significance of heart rate variability during the type 2 dm developed with the ischemic heart disease and arterial hypertension].

In recent decades the special attention is given to the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) to assess the prognosis of the patients with cardiovascular diseases. There were studied 47 male with arterial hypertension and heart failure, by which the HRV was researched. In the group of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM), ischemic heart disease (IHD), arterial hypertension (AH) and heart failure (HF), the heart rate variability (HRV) has been considerably lowered in comparison with the group of patients at which the presence of DM was absent.

[Assessment of efficiency of patients' therapeutic education in chronic heart failure treatment].

Patients' therapeutic education is one of the modern approaches to improvement of quality of chronic heart failure (CHF) treatment. Purpose of the study was evaluation of the effect of therapeutic education on life quality and need of rehospitalization in patients with CHF. 57 patients with CHF of NYHA III-IV functional class (FC) randomized in two - intervention and control groups - were observed.

[Ultrasound assessment of hemodynamic parameters in patients with coarctation of the aorta in the immediate and remote postoperative period].

We examined 97 patients aged 14 days - 21 years with coarctation of the aorta (CA) and studied effect of high pressure and pressure gradient in the region of CA (DeltaP(CA)) on cardiac pump function and reserve capacity of the left ventricle. Children with left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF) below 30% (n=24) comprised group 1, patients with LVEF 30 - 45% (n=55) - group 2, and patients with LVEF above 45% - group 3. Four group 1 patients had signs of fibroelastosis of the left ventricle, 3 of them were operated before age of 3 months, 1 - at the age of 5 months.