[Dilated cardiomyopathy as clinical syndrome: experience with nosological diagnostics with biopsy and treatment approaches].

Aim: To study possibility of nosological diagnosis in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCMP) with use of myocardial biopsy.

Material And Methods: The trial enrolled 62 patients (23 females) with DCMP syndrome (end diastolic left ventricular size > 5.5 cm, ejection fraction < 55%).

[The growth constraining diet causes various strategy of adaptation in young and adult animals].

The glucose-6-phosphatase activity of microsomes and phosphorylative mitochondrial activity of liver cells, alanine- and aspartate aminotransferase activities in plasma of blood of young (3 month) and adult (21 month) male rats kept under three various diets resulting in a various degree of a growth inhibition and losses of weight of a body have been studied. There were selected diets giving to animals the food full-valued by composition but limited by quantity. Experiment proceeded 50 days.

[Cardiomyocyte cytoskeleton in dilated cardiomyopathy and ischemic heart disease].

Summary. Vinculin, the protein of cardiomyocyte cytoskeleton in the myocardium of patients with a dilated cardiomyopathy and ischemic heart disease, was revealed by means of monoclonal antibodies and by a method of indirect immunofluorescence. Cytoskeleton of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy is disorganized, hypertrophic and contains greater amounts of vinculin than cytoskeleton of normal cardiomyocytes.

[A method of detecting soluble immune complexes in tissue biopsies].

Pretreatment of cryostat slices of tissue biopsy specimens with 30-50% water ethanol mixture increases the rate of detection of immune complexes in the intercellular substance of the epidermis to 100% in patients with acantholytic pemphigus. This method permitted the detection of immune complexes in all the examined cases with benign familial Hailey-Hailey pemphigus, which has never been reported heretofore. The authors believe that 30-50% water-ethanol mixture is capable of soft denaturation of proteins, stabilizes the slightly affine antibody-antigen relations, and aggregates soluble immune complexes into larger protein formations, this preventing their washing out from tissues.

[Humoral immunopathologic changes in the myocardium after clinical allotransplantation of the heart].

Endomyocardial diagnostic biopsies, recipient heart removed at operation, endomyocardial biopsies of allotransplants and postmortem material were studied using immunofluorescence to specify immunopathological process and to detect humoral rejection. Altogether 306 samples from 55 patients were studied. In the early postoperative period (one year) 8 out of 18 patients with heart transplants repeatedly showed immunopathologic picture of acute humoral (vascular) rejection which was characterized by a widespread immunoglobulin G and complement fixation in the capillary walls accompanied by enhanced capillary permeability and fibrin deposition in intestitial tissue.