[Glomerular permeability for serum proteins in different morphological types of primary chronic glomerulopathy].

Membranous glomerulonephritis (MGN), mesangiocapillary (MCGN), membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) and focal segmental sclerosis or hyalinosis (FSSH) were studied for glomerular filter permeability to serum albumins, IgA and IgG. In MGN the permeability for large-molecular globulins is not dependent on that for albumin, permeabilities for the globulins appeared correlated. In MPGN permeability for IgG depends on albumins permeability, correlations between that for IgA and IgG are similar to relevant findings in MGN.

[A comparative evaluation of the electric impulse treatment of atrial fibrillation based on the data from 2 clinics. 2. The late results].

Long-term results of electroimpulse treatment for cardiac fibrillation in 1292 patients performed in cardiological clinics of Moscow and Kaunas have been compared. It is shown that more strict selection, longer preparation for the impulse exposure may secure a significant decrease in the number of the fibrillation recurrences both 1 and 6 months after recovery of the normal rhythm.

[A method of choosing maintenance anti-arrhythmia therapy after sinus rhythm restoration in patients with a permanent form of atrial fibrillation].

The authors suggest a new method of choice of the drug (quinidine or cordarone) for the maintenance antiarrhythmic therapy after sinus rhythm recovery in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation, in patients with rheumatic heart disease and coronary heart disease. The method is based on the formalized prediction of the results of cardioversion and on the distinguishing groups with a good and bad prognosis. In the former group, both drugs can be administered, in the latter group, it is desirable that cordarone may be used.

[A comparison of the efficacy of quinidine and kordaron as agents to stabilize the recovered sinus rhythm in patients with the permanent form of atrial fibrillation].

The efficacy of chinidine and cordarone as agents preventing the recurrence of the disturbed sinus rhythm was studied and compared on a material of 459 patients with permanent atrial fibrillation eliminated by electropulse therapy. The sinus rhythm was preserved significantly better in a group of patients given cordarone as a preventive agent, which is confirmed with the aid of a multidimensional statistical analysis as well as an analysis of "competing hypotheses".