Carotid total plaque area as an independent predictor of short-term subclinical polyvascular atherosclerosis progression and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events.

Background: The use of ultrasound-based methods for imaging of subclinical atherosclerosis, including measurement of carotid plaque burden (cPB), is a promising direction for further improvement of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) prediction.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to research the prognostic values' significance of cPB indicators with regard to the short-term progression of polyvascular subclinical atherosclerosis and the long-term onset of MACCE.

Design: Single-center prospective cohort study.

Innate and Adaptive Immunity-Related Markers as Predictors of the Short-Term Progression of Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Middle-Aged Patients.

Assessment of inflammation is a promising approach to monitoring the progression of asymptomatic atherosclerosis. The aim of the present study was to investigate the predictive value of innate and adaptive immunity-related markers, in relation to the short-term progression of subclinical atherosclerosis. The study included 183 patients aged 40-64 years who underwent duplex scanning of the carotid and lower limb arteries at two visits with an interval of 12-24 months between examinations.

[Features of the upper gastrointestinal tract mucous membrane state in patients with atherosclerosis of the mesenteric arteries].

Aim: To evaluate the clinical and endoscopic features of diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract (GIT) in patients with atherosclerosis of the mesenteric arteries (MA).

Materials And Methods: The study included 48 patients with atherosclerosis of MA and 43 patients without atherosclerosis of MA, who were hospitalized in the department of vascular surgery of the Chelyabinsk Regional Clinical Hospital in the period from 2019 to 2021. All patients underwent multispiral computed tomoangiography of the visceral and lower limb arteries, esophagogastroduodenoscopy.

[Changes in the type and amount of bone collagens in chronic suppurative otitis media].

Objective: Comparative assessment of the collagen-tissue interaction in the bone tissue of the middle ear structures in patients with chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM).

Material And Methods: A prospective study of 42 patients aged 16-60 years with CSOM admitted for reconstructive sanitizing surgery was performed. To study the collagen-tissue interaction, intraoperative samples of the bone tissue of the middle ear were used.

Circulating Ageing Neutrophils as a Marker of Asymptomatic Polyvascular Atherosclerosis in Statin-Naïve Patients without Established Cardiovascular Disease.

Background: Current data on the possible involvement of aging neutrophils in atherogenesis are limited. This study aimed to research the diagnostic value of aging neutrophils in their relation to subclinical atherosclerosis in statin-naïve patients without established atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD).

Methods: The study was carried out on 151 statin-naïve patients aged 40-64 years old without ASCVD.