[Assessment of the results of left ventricular reconstruction in combination of coronary atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus].

Aim: To study the effect of type 2 diabetes mellitus on changes of intracardiac haemodynamics and myocardial morphology in patients with ischaemic heart disease and a postinfarction aneurysm of the left ventricle before and after corrective operations on the heart.

Patients And Methods: The study included 79 patients with ischaemic heart disease and a chronic aneurysm of the left ventricle (Group I - patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (n=27), mean age 57.5±3.

[Typical errors pulmonary artery verification on the example of a clinical case].

The difficulties of verification of pulmonary embolism (PE) are well known and have not been overcome to date, despite significant progress in approaches to managing patients with this pathology over the past 1015 years. Due to the nonspecific clinical picture, cases of a long and difficult journey to this diagnosis are not exclusive. In large studies have shown that the most frequent symptom of pulmonary embolism shortness of breath.

[Ultrasonographic control of cerebral blood flow in patients with stenosis of brachiocephalic arteries before and after carotid endarterectomy].

The authors studied the parameters of arterial and venous blood flow in patients presenting with haemodynamically significant atherosclerosis of the carotid arteries before and after carotid endarterectomy, as well as while carrying out functional tests. Comparing the indices of arterial blood flow in the Study Group consisting of 52 patients and the Control Group comprising 15 apparently healthy volunteers at rest prior to the operation revealed statistically significant differences of volumetric parameters of blood flow in the internal carotid artery. The obtained results showed that the breath-holding test was accompanied and followed by increased velocity of blood flow in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) on the side contralateral to stenosis, with the reactivity index (RI) amounting to 0.

[Simultaneous magnetic resonance angiographic and tomographic assessment of atherosclerotic plaques of carotid arteries with paramagnetic contrasting by cyclomang].

The authors studied a possibility of simultaneously performing magnetic resonance (MR) angiography of carotid arteries and contrast-enhanced MR tomography of atherosclerotic plaques of carotid arteries. We examined a total of 16 patients presenting with disseminated atherosclerosis and 8 patients of the control group. Quadrature coils for examination of the head were used in order to sequentially perform MR tomography of the brain, MR angiography of carotid arteries and MR tomography of atherosclerotic plaques of carotid arteries with contrasting by 0.

[Cardiovascular effects of D-ALA2, LEU5, ARG6-enkephalin (dalargin) are mediated by peripheral mu-opioid receptor activation].

It has been established that intravenous administration of dalargin at a dose of 0.1 mg/kg induced hypotensive, positive inotropic, and positive chronotropic response in patients with myocardial infarction, while not producing the "steal syndrome." The positive chronotropic effect of dalargin was mediated by peripheral mu-opioid receptors.