[A clinical case of diagnosis of left ventricular noncompaction myocardium in a patient with infectious myocarditis].

The paper describes a rare clinical case involving primary cardiomyopathy (noncompaction of the left ventricular myocardium (NCLVM), infectious myocarditis, and, possibly, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Objective, laboratory instrumental, invasive examination (coronarography with right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy) of the patient and histological study of his heart biopsy revealed acute infectious myocarditis concurrent with NCLVM and, possibly, HCM. The detection of a rare abnormality as NCLVM necessitates a meticulous additional examination to identify other primary cardiomyopathies (including HCM).

[Echocardiography--prognosis of the course of infectious endocarditis and long-term survival in this disease].

Aim: To determine prognostic opportunities of echocardiography (ECG) in infectious endocarditis (IE) basing on the assessment of microbial vegetations size and degree of valvular failure.

Material And Methods: Of 114 patients with definite IE (72 male, 42 female), 90 ones had primary and 24 secondary endocarditis. The prospective study included all the survivors in the IE active stage--78 patients.

[Survival of patients with infectious endocarditis in various treatment methods].

The aim of the study was to compare survival of patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) by abuse of intravenous narcotic substances in conservative and combined treatment in acute IE phase. A total of 195 IE patients were examined. 121 of them was treated conservatively, 74 patients received a combined treatment including surgical one.

[Infectious endocarditis of the left heart atrium in injection drug addicts].

Aim: To study etiology, clinical picture, course and prognosis of left heart infection endocarditis (LHIE) in drug addicts.

Material And Methods: 61 drug addicts entered the study. 14 of them had lesions of the left heart valves (group 1), 11--of the right and left heart valves (group 2), 36--of the tricuspid valve (group 3), 39 control patients with LHIE had no addiction.