Predictors of Atrial Fibrillation Developing in Hospital Stage After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.

Aim    To identify independent predictors associated with in-hospital atrial fibrillation (AF) following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).Material and methods     The study included 80 patients (88.75 % men) who had elective CABG surgery at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Medicine.

[PECULIARITIES OF DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH RECURRENT MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION].

The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficiency of invasive strategies for the treatment of 306 patients with recurrent myocardial infarction (IM) admitted to our clinic in 2003-2007. We compared the results of three approaches: various forms of transdermal coronary interventions (TDI) including delayed (24-72 hr) ones (n = 30), surgical myocardial revascularization within 8-12 weeks after the onset of recurrent myocardial infarction (n = 25), and conservative therapy (n = 251). Overall cardiovascular lethality was estimated during 5 years in 101 patients.

[Esophageal stenting complications].

The aim of the study was to analyze esophageal stenting complications in case of cancer and benign diseases. It was investigated complications in 8 patients in terms from 7 days to 1 year after intervention. In 4 patients esophageal stenting was performed for constrictive esophageal cancer and compression with pulmonary cancer metastases into mediastinal lymphatic nodes.

[Efficacy of reperfusion therapy in syndrome of predominant right ventricular dysfunction associated with inferior myocardial infarction].

Aim of the study was choice of optimal tactics of treatment of patients with syndrome of predominant right ventricular (RV) dysfunction, associated with inferior myocardial infarction. We compared immediate and remote results of 3 strategies of treatment of 100 patients admitted to N.V.

[Cytomegalovirus infection and pneumocystis pneumonia after coronary stenting and cardiac transplantation for acute myocardial infarction].

The paper presents the clinical and anatomic data of combination treatment for acute myocardial infarction, by stenting the infarct-related artery, followed by cardiac transplantation, which have provided the optimal result of surgery and caused no severe rejection reaction. The immediate causes of death have been infectious complications (cytomegalovirus infection and pneumocystis pneumonia) developing in the presence of immunodeficiency state. The following diagnosis formulation is pathogenetically warranted: the underlying disease is "Secondary immunodeficiency due to immunosuppressive therapy" and infectious complications may be assigned to the individual rubric "Secondary disease" (i.