[PECULIARITIES OF ROTATIONAL MOTION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR WALLS IN PATIENTS ON MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY].

The peculiarities of rotational motion of left ventricular (LV) walls in patients on mitral valve insufficiency (MVI) were studied. In normal heart and MVI the rotation of basal and apical portions of the LV occurs in inter-reverse directions: the basal portion rotates clockwise and apical portion rotates counterclockwise. In patients with MVI the increase of the LV volumes is accompanied by compensatory rise of LV myocardium torsion up to (23.

[Dilated cardiomyopathy: the role of left branch of atrioventricular bundle block in left ventricular walls longitudinal strain indices change].

Activity of the heart is assured by the myocardium motion with a composite path, which can be described with various quantitative indices, in particular the strain ones. The invention and implementation into clinical practice the "Speckle Tracking" ultrasonic technology, based on the two-dimensional echocardiography, allows to study of normal myocardium function as well as its functioning in various hart lesions, in particular, dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP). Peculiarities of the features of longitudinal strain parameters of left ventricular (LV) walls in patients with DCMP, according to the occurrence of the total left branch of atrioventricular bundle block were studied.

[Longitudinal shift of left ventricle walls in norm and in dilated cardiomyopathy].

Peculiarities of longitudinal shift of the left ventricle (LV) walls were studied in patients in various variants of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP). In patients, suffering DCMP, the enhancement of the end-diastolic (EDI) and the end-systolic (ESI) indexes are noted, as well as of the punch index and expulsion fraction, the pulmonary artery hypertension, moderate insufficiency of mitral and tricuspid valves. These changes are aggravated in complete blockade of left pedicle of atrio-ventricular fascicle (AVF).

[Atherosclerosis of ascending aorta as a risk factor for neurological complications occurrence in surgical treatment of the ischemic heart disease].

Own experience of the ischemic heart disease (IHD) surgical treatment, combined with the ascending aorta (AA) atherosclerosis, was analyzed. Basing on results of surgical treatment for IHD there were noted mostly informative methods of diagnosis of the AA atherosclerotic affection severity and optimal approaches to surgical treatment of such patients.

Is surgery the gold standard in the treatment of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?

Objectives: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a complex and relatively common genetic cardiac disease and has been the subject of intensive scrutiny and investigation for over 40 years. The aim of this non-randomized cohort study was to compare subjective and objective outcomes in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients undergoing drug therapy, surgical myotomy-myectomy, dual-chamber pacing and alcohol septal ablation.

Methods: We examined 194 patients: 103 with non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and 91 with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.