[Assessing efficacy and risk factors of carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting in patients with symptomatic stenoses of internal carotid arteries in early postoperative period].

The present work was aimed at comparative assessment of efficacy and risk factors of carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting in patients suffering from symptomatic stenoses of the internal carotid arteries, with due regard for the degree of the accompanying cardiac pathology, the presence of contralateral occlusion, and severity of chronic cerebrovascular insufficiency. We examined and treated a total of 142 patients diagnosed with stenoses of the internal carotid arteries and symptoms of chronic cerebrovascular insufficiency. In the cohort of those subjected to carotid endarterectomy we performed a total of 76 operations in 73 patients, and in the group of carotid stenting 71 operations of stenting of the internal carotid artery with cerebral protection in 69 patients.

[Surgical correction of cerebral blood flow steal syndrome by aortic branches stenosis].

Results of surgical treatment of 119 patients with cerebral/coronary blood flow steal syndrome were analyzed. Vertebro-subclavian steal syndrome was registered in 91.5%.

[Diagnosis and surgical treatment of aneurysms of the popliteal artery].

Nineteen patients with aneurysms of the popliteal artery have been operated. Indications and type of surgery were determined on the basis of the clinical picture, angiography and duplex scanning data. There were 19 surgeries: ligation of afferent and efferent vessels of aneurysm with auto-venous grafting (8), resection of aneurysm with auto-venous grafting (5), dissection of aneurysm with auto-venous grafting and coverage with duplication from aneurysmatic walls (3), endovascular grafting of aneurysm (2), ligation of afferent vessel of aneurysm (1).

[Roentgenendovascular stenting (stent-graft) of the external iliac artery for elimination of post-traumatic arteriovenous anastomosis].

Presented herein is a case report concerning successful treatment of the post-traumatic pathological anastomosis between the left external iliac artery and iliac vein using the stent-graft Jostent-graft. The anastomosis emerged after gunshot injury to the abdominal cavity.

[Our experience in the use of prostatilen in urology].

Prostatilen was used in 1115 patients with chronic pyelonephritis and prostatitis. It is shown that prostatilen has a corrective effect on hemocoagulation and immunity disorders, restores microcirculation, suppresses inflammation in the kidney and prostate. Thus, prostatilen is a pathogenetically sound drug for treatment in urogenital inflammation while in chronic prostatitis it can be used as a basic therapy.

[Informative value of immunologic analysis of blood and ejaculate in diagnosing chronic prostatitis].

Ejaculate and blood serum from 40 patients with chronic prostatitis were studied immunologically, IgG, IgA, sIgA, IgM concentrations in ejaculate may be greatly influenced by multicomponent composition of ejaculate. This means that it is impossible to diagnose chronic prostatitis only by changes of immunoglobulin concentrations in ejaculate. Data on IgA, sIgA concentrations plus on leukocyte count in ejaculate give more information for precise diagnosis of chronic prostatitis.

[Diagnostic role of interleukin-8 determination in chronic prostatitis].

Measurements were made of interleukine-8 (IL-8) levels in ejaculate, prostatic secretion, blood serum of 60 patients with latent chronic prostatitis (CP). These levels were higher in CP patients than in healthy subjects. A rise in concentrations of IL-8 in prostatic secretion and ejaculate correlates with other inflammation markers.

[Clinical significance of the determination of R-proteins in the ejaculate of patients with chronic prostatitis].

Products of cell receptor (R-proteins) catabolic lysis were measured in ejaculate of 121 patients with chronic prostatitis and 15 healthy males. R-protein levels were higher in the patients (U = 172.5; p = 0.

[Influence of prostatilen on smooth muscle organs functional activity in surgical patients (clinical and experimental study)].

The action of prostatilen on contractile activity of smooth muscles of isolated line slices of urine bladder of Wistar rats (myography) and arterial vessels of cat kidneys (resistography) was studied. On the basis of clinical cases effectiveness of prostatilen was analysed as a treatment restorting urine bladder function in acute reflex urinary retention after operations in the area of rectal sphincter, as well as in treatment of patients with chronic prostatitis. It is shown, that prostatilen produces contractile action on smooth muscles of renal blood vessels in cats and urine bladder walls in rats and it raises contractile activity of smooth muscles of human urine bladder.

[The effect of prostatilen on the hemostatic indices in chronic prostatitis (a clinical and experimental study)].

Prostatilen effects on hemostasis were studied in 120 intact and 240 chronic prostatitis rats, 34 patients with chronic prostatitis. Intact rats responded to prostatilen by inhibition of platelet-vascular and coagulation hemostatic mechanisms and activation of fibrinolysis. Experimental chronic prostatitis in rats induced hemostatic shifts to hypercoagulation.

[The effect of prostatilen on the contractile activity of the smooth-muscle cells of the blood vessels and bladder in cats].

Prostatilene enhanced the functional activity of the bladder and blood vessels' smooth muscle cells. A possibility of activation of the smooth muscle cells contractility with prostatilene by a pharmaco-mechanical association, is discussed.