Characteristics of Atherosclerotic Plaques Left after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome. Assessment According to Computed Tomographic Angiography of the Coronary Arteries.

Aim: To evaluate characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques (ASP) remaining after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA).

Material And Methods: Among 249 patients (193 men) with ACS aged 58±10 years, 183 (73.5%) had myocardial infarction, 66 (26.

[Factors associated with an increase in spatial and frontal QRS-T angles in patients with anterior myocardial infarction].

Aim    To determine existence of a relationship between any clinical, echocardiographic and coronarographic factors and increased spatial QRS-T (sQRS-T) angle and frontal QRS-T (fQRS-T) angle in patients with anterior myocardial infarction.Material and methods    This study included 137 patients aged 62 [53; 72] years with anterior acute myocardial infarction managed at the A.L.

[DYNAMICS OF INFLAMMATORY MARKERS AFTER SURGERY ON THE DISTAL RECTUM].

Objective - to compare the concentrations of inflammatory markers interleukin-6, CRP, and lactoferrin in the serum of patients with benign diseases of the rectum, depending on the volume of surgical intervention and evaluate their changes in different periods after surgery. Been surveyed 92 patients: 54 patients (control group) were operated on for one of the three diseases - chronic hemorrhoids, fistula rectum and chronic anal fissure, 38 patients (main group) operated simultaneously over two or more diseases (combined pathology), where the main were diagnosed with the above diseases. In both groups of patients was determined concentration of interleukin-6, CRP and lactoferrin in serum before surgery, on 3 and 7 days after surgery.

Computed Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging With Transesophageal Atrial Pacing Stress Test in Patients With Borderline Stenoses in the Coronary Arteries: a Comparison With Fractional Flow Reserve.

Aim      To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of cardiac perfusion computed tomography (PCT) with transesophageal electrocardiostimulation (TE ECS) for detection of ischemia in patients with borderline coronary stenosis (50-75 %) compared to measurements of fractional flow reserve (FFR).Material and methods  The study included 25 patients with borderline (50-75 %) coronary stenosis as per data of computed tomography angiography (CTA) or coronary angiography (CAG). Later the patients underwent invasive measurement of FFR and cardiac PCT on a 320-row detector tomograph in combination with the TE ECS stress test.