[Diagnostic algorithms and features of clinical course of congenital heart diseases in infants with lung anomalies].

The paper discusses the influence of lung anomalies on the progress of congenital heart diseases (CHD) in infants, as well as diagnostic value of radiography and ultraspeed computed tomography (CT). The four-year experience of the authors includes preoperative examination of 178 infants with CHD (mean age 5.8 +/- 0.

[Myocardial fatty dystrophy in patients with Fallot tetralogy].

Fatty degeneration (FD) was studied histochemically and ultrastructurally in surgical biopsies from 147 patients aged 22 days to 40 years with Fallot's tetralogy. FD was most pronounced in patients aged 3 to 6 years when the main part of cardiomyocytes completed the program of ontogenetical growth and started growing as hypertrophic mature cells. An increase of FD is considered as manifestation of an initial stage of hypertrophy of mature cardiomyocytes.

[The use of positron emission tomography for noninvasive diagnosis of mitochondrial dysfunction and assessment of myocardial compensatory reserve in children with cardiomyopathies].

Background: Recent experimental and clinical studies have shown that cardiomyopathy (CMP) can be associated with disorders of oxidative metabolism in cardiomyocyte mitochondria. These disorders are connected with deficit of enzymes and complexes of electron transfer chain, and can constitute pathogenetic base of the disease. AIM.