[Prognostic factors for progression of mitral regurgitation in patients with coronary heart disease after aortocoronary bypass surgery alone and in combination with surgical left ventricular reconstruction].

Aim: To identify risk and prognostic factors for mitral regurgitation (MR) progression after aortocoronary bypass surgery (ACBS) alone and in combination with surgical left ventricular (LV) reconstruction.

Subjects And Methods: Data on 101 patients with coronary heart disease who had undergone surgical treatment: ACBS alone in 57 (56%) patients and that in combination with surgical LV reconstruction in 44 (44%).

Results: In the late periods after ACBS alone, there was reduced or no MR in 18% of the patients; no substantial changes in MR in 52%, the latter being moderate; progression to significant mitral insufficiency (MI) in 30%.

[Aspects of risk stratification in acute coronary syndrome: prognostic value of evaluation of left ventricular myocardial viability according to the data of pharmacological stress echocardiography].

Aim: To define the prognostic value of the indicators of left ventricular myocardial viability according to the data of pharmacological stress echocardiography in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Materials And Methods: The results of examinations were analyzed in a total of 91 patients with ACS; 71 of them were found to have areas of asynergy (these cases formed the key basis for statistical processing). An analysis of the outcomes registered in the established follow-up period (mean 14.

[Aspects of risk stratification in acute coronary syndrome (Part II): Prognostic value of evaluation of exercise-induced myocardial ischemia according to the data of pharmacological stress echocardiography].

Aim: To define the prognostic value of evaluation exercise-induced myocardial ischemia according to the data of pharmacological (dobutamine or dipyridamole) stress echocardiography (EchoCG) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Subjects And Methods: The results of examinations were analyzed in a total of 91 patients with ACS. An analysis of events in the established follow-up period (mean 14.