The etymological role of the main atmosphere pollutants in development of human diseases.

The aim of research was monitoring of the main atmospheric air pollutants concentration on Adjara Autonomous Republic territory in order to determine their role in causing different diseases. The following atmospheric air pollutants have been determined in Batumi: dust, carbon monoxide, sulfur and nitrogen dioxide. The number of diseases registered in Adjara Autonomous Republic, which may be linked to the air pollution, has been studied.

Ischemic cardiomyopathy: echocardiographyc diagnostic markers.

Purpose of the pilot study was to reveal structural and functional features of heart failure at different severity levels of ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICMP). 62 patients affected with ICMP have been involved in the study: 9 men (15%) and 51 (85%) women (average age 62,63+/-13,11). The control group was composed of 20 healthy persons.

Left ventricular function in patients with toxic cardiomyopathy and with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy treated with Doxorubicin.

Aim of the study was to investigate LV structural and functional parameters in doxorubicin chemotherapy and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy as well as to study dynamics of LV systolic-diastolic dysfunction in relation to the increasing doxorubicin dosage. Patients with malignant blood diseases (with non-Hodgkin's, Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphatic leukaemia) and patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy were investigated. Patients were divided into 2 groups.

[Diastolic dysfunction and diastolic heart failure].

There are frequent clinical Cases in Cardiological practice when cardiac failure develops together with normal systolic function of left ventricle. In these patients after revealing the diastolic dysfunction the heart diastolic failure is diagnosed, but in frequent cases this diagnosis is based on exclusion method. According to Framingham data the number of patients with clinically manifested diastolic dysfunction is high; it is age-dependent and reveals in women mostly; that means that the problem is social as well as medical one.

[The feature of cardial remodeling process at Doxorubicin chemotherapy and idiopathic dilatative cardiomyopathy].

The aim of the study was the evaluation of structural-functional data of the left ventricle (LV) at doxorubicin chemotherapy and idiopathic dilatative cardiomyopathy. Monitoring of 99 patients had been performed: 49 with onco-hematological diseases and 50 with idiopathic dilatative cardiomyopathy. According to the total dose of doxorubicin the patients had been divided to three sub-groups: I subgroup -- 232.