[Radiographic endovascular correction of hyperaldosteronism in patients with arterial hypertension].

The authors describe a new method of X-ray endovascular destruction of the adrenal in patients with arterial hypertension and hyperaldosteronism. Destruction of the adrenal is accomplished by acute occlusion of its venous channel by introduction of a 3% thrombovar solution through a catheter installed in the central vein of the suprarenal gland. This method was applied in 22 patients with arterial hypertension; essential hypertension with secondary hyperaldosteronism was found in 18 of them, renoparenchymatous hypertension in 2, aldosteroma of the left adrenal in one, and Itsenko-Cushing's disease in one patient.

[Treatment of mitral valve stenosis in pregnant women by the method of balloon valvuloplasty].

Catheter-balloon mitral valvuloplasty was performed in 7 females with rheumatic mitral stenosis on the 19th-32nd week of pregnancy. Four patients were operated on with signs of cardiac insufficiency, two--in a state of pulmonary pre-edema. Edema of the lungs in one patient continued developing on the operating table.