[Value of ultrasonographic examination of the inferior vena cava in congestive heart failure].

The analysis of 118 ultrasonographies of the vena cava inferior (VCI) in 57 patients with congestive heart failure complicating valvular disease suggested that VCI ultrasonic evaluation may contribute to detection of the greater circulation insufficiency. The VCI calibre increase in the circulatory insufficiency stage IIB and III correlates with elevated venous pressure. Ultrasonic follow-up of the VCI condition may serve a basis for conclusions on the effectiveness of the therapy conducted.

[Late results of cholelitholytic therapy of patients with cholelithiasis using chenodeoxycholic and ursodeoxycholic acids].

Specially selected 78 patients with cholelithiasis received drugs of chenodeoxycholic and ursodeoxycholic acids. Concomitant cardiovascular disorders were in 38 of them. Upon the end of the treatment course (12 months, on the average) the patients were examined and it was found that the stones disappeared in 22 of them.

[The content of cholylglycine in the blood serum in cholelithiasis during treatment with litholytic preparations of bile acids].

Liver function has been assessed on the basis of radioimmunoassays of the primary conjugated cholic acid, cholylglycine, in the blood sera of cholelithiasis patients treated with cheno- and ursodeoxycholic acid drugs for a long time. The findings indicate that the blood serum cholylglycine levels may be regarded, among other things, as a prognostic criterion of the efficacy of cholelithiasis therapy with bile acid preparations for litholysis.