[Assessment of myocardial viability and recovery of the left ventricular function in postmyocardial infarction patients].

Aim: To evaluate prognostic significance of myocardial viability (MV) depending on treatment policy in postmyocardial infarction (PMI) patients.

Material And Methods: The study included 196 patients (172 males, 24 females, age 30-75, mean age 53 +/- 8.6 years).

[Atherogenesis and serum levels of apolipoprotein E].

Serum apolipoprotein (apo) E levels and their relationship with age were examined in different age groups of healthy individuals of both sexes in a Lithuanian population. The serum concentrations of apo E in patients after coronary bypass were measured and patients suffered from diabetes mellitus were also examined. The mean levels of apo E were found to be higher in healthy males than those in healthy females only in young age.

[Atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries and the blood group in the population of Lithuania].

Data are reported on the relation between atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries and blood group. Examined were 291 patients in whom involvement of the coronary arteries was verified by means of coronarography and aortocoronary shunting. It was established that the group B blood was distinctly more frequent and group O blood was distinctly less frequently observed in male patients under 45 years.

[Evaluation of late results of aortocoronary bypass in patients with ischemic heart disease in relation to the bypass function].

The authors analyse 82 patients with aggravation of their clinical condition in the late-term periods after aortocoronary shunting. All were subjected to coronaroshuntography 3.6 +/- +/- 0.