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Aim: To investigate the difference in characteristics of patients admitted to the Tomsk National Research Medical Center with a diagnosis of heart failure (HF) in 2002 and 2016.

Methods: Medical charts of all patients hospitalised in a single centre, with a diagnosis of HF, were included. Two three‑month periods were compared from January 2002 (n=210) and January 2016 (n=378).

Nonpharmacological Correction of Hypersympatheticotonia in Patients with Chronic Coronary Insufficiency and Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction.

Background: Control of sympathetic hyperactivity is pivotal for treatment of heart failure (HF) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Our earlier studies demonstrated that the auricular pulsed electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve (VNS) beneficially affected condition of CAD patients with HF. The aim of our study was to evaluate changes in heart rate (HR) and the levels of heat shock proteins in peripheral blood lymphocytes in patients with CAD in the course of VNS.

[Auricular vagal stimulation in the treatment of patients with left ventricular dysfunction].

We assessed effect of enhancement of parasympathetic activity by indirect vagal stimulation via sensitive n. vagus-r. auricularis terminals on dynamics of clinical conditions, ejection fraction and global longitudinal left ventricle deformation in patients with chronic cardiac insufficiency (CCI).