[Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) in diagnostics, risk and severity evaluation of magistral vessels lesion in patients with cardio-vascular diseases and type 2 diabetes].

Assesment of arterial stiffness the substantional prognostic factor for evaluating complications of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in patients with atherosclerosis, hypertension and type 2 diabetes, may be performed using different parameters, including cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI). The main purpose of this review is to analyze data from studies where CAVI is used to test the arterial wall stiffness in magistral vessels. CAVI measurement is non-invasive and performed by portable devices which makes it comfortable for ambulatory use in patients who come for a check-up and also in those who already are hospitalized.

[Results of enzyme-linked immunoassay of the blood serum in patients with infectious and inflammatory diseases of the anterior segment of the eye].

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical significance of the data obtained during enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) of the blood serum of patients with inflammatory diseases of the anterior eye segment compared to a group of healthy volunteers.

Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis of the results of serum ELISA of 200 patients with chronic keratoconjunctivitis and keratouveitis was performed using the solid-phase IFA method in order to detect the presence of antibodies to herpes simplex viruses of 1 and 2 types (HSV 1, 2), cytomegalovirus (CMV), and . The control group consisted of 34 healthy volunteers with no signs of inflammation of the eye tissue.

[Early diagnosis of Takayasu's disease (clinical case report)].

Nonspecific aortoarteritis (Takayasu s disease, obliterating aortoarteritis, disease of the missing pulse) is a systemic inflammatory disease of aorta and its branches, which leads to stenosis and ischemia of surrounding tissues. This disease is more common in young women and characterized by slowly progressive course with significant impairing quality of life. Etiology of the Takayasu's disease is unknown.

[The analysis of commercial fish population size oscillations in Lake Peipus].

With the use of recurrence plots, we show that the irregular oscillations in time, which commercial fish populations in Lake Peipus undergo, are deterministic.