[Pharmacoeconomic analysis in geriatric clinic].

Carrying out pharmacoeconomic analysis allows to prove the choice of effective, safe and economically preferable medicinal agents for old patients in medical institutions that promotes more rational use of budgetary funds and optimize medical care for patients of this age.

[Pharmacoeconomic assessment of antihypertensive therapy for patients of elderly and senile age in the hospital for veterans of war].

The authors presented results of the study of antihypertensive therapy for patients of elderly and senile age in the hospital, an assessment of the efficiency of the control of arterial hypertension in a clinical practice is given in the article. The article presents the most effective combinations of antihypertensive agents, their pharmacoeconomic assessment and rational scheme of antihypertensive treatment for the patients of this age category.

[Spirulina: perspectives of the application in medicine].

The data on biologically active components included in structure of blue-green seaweed spirulina, determining its value as food additive and medicinal means are submitted. The results of use of spirulina in experimental models of pathology and clinical practice are generalized.

[Clinical and experimental study of spirulina efficacy in chronic diffuse liver diseases].

The results of examination of 60 patients presenting with chronic diffuse disorders of the liver and seventy experimental animals with toxic affection of the liver, having been administered spirulina treatments, suggest clinical-and-laboratory effectiveness of this drug. The hepatoprotective properties of spirulina are referrable to its antiinflammatory, antioxidant, membrane-stabilizing, and immunocorrecting actions. In this way the employment of spirulina is believed to be pathogenetically validated in chronic diffuse liver conditions, permitting stabilizing the process and preventing the transformation of chronic hepatitis into hepatocirrhosis.