European Society of Cardiology guidelines and 1 year outcomes of acute heart failure treatment in Central Asia and Europe.

Aims: Outcomes reported for patients with hospitalization for acute heart failure (AHF) treatment vary worldwide. Ethnicity-associated characteristics may explain this observation. This observational study compares characteristics and 1-year outcomes of Kyrgyz and Swiss AHF patients against the background of European Society of Cardiology guidelines-based cardiovascular care established in both countries.

[The Impact of Asymptomatic Left Ventricular Dilatation on the Course of Anterior Myocardial Infarction.].

Aim: to elucidate effect of asymptomatic left ventricular (LV) dilatation on the course of myocardial infarction (MI).

Material And Methods: LV remodeling and diastolic function, as well as inter- and intraventricular asynchrony were studied in 58 patients with primary anterior MI without signs of heart failure and ejection fraction >40% on month 12 of the disease. Patients were divided into 2 groups: with normal-sized left ventricle (LV end diastolic size [EDS] <5.

[Study of blood cholesterol and triglycerides in patients with acute myocardial infarction].

The levels of cholesterol (C) and triglycerides (TG) were studied by a standard biochemical assays and the amount of C and TG was examined by a fluorescence assay in 55 patients with complicated (n=32) and uncomplicated (n=23) acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and in 25 apparently healthy donors. The content of C did not differ significantly in the study groups. As compared with the controls, the patients with complicated AMI had lower values of C + TG (p < 0.

[Cytotoxic effect of lymphocytes with cardiolipin in diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome].

Cytotoxic effect of lymphocytes sensitized to cardiolipin antigen was studied in 172 patients with acute coronary syndrome. In this phenomenon effector cells were peripheral blood T-lymphocytes and target cells were erythrocytes loaded with cardiolipin antigen. It was found that cytotoxic effect of lymphocytes in these patients carries diagnostic information and can have supplementary value in difficult cases of diagnostics of this disease.

[Analysis of the amount of plasma cholesterol and triglycerides in patients with coronary heart disease].

Fluorescence technique was used to study the time course of changes in the amount of blood cholesterol and triglycerides (C+TG) in 43 patients with Q- and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction (MI) on days 1, 2, 3, and 10 of the disease, in 82 patients with chronic coronary heart disease (CHD), and in 43 apparently healthy donors. Within the first 3 days of the disease, the level of C+TG in the patients with acute MI (AMI) was significantly lower than that in the patients with chronic CHD and in the donors. By day 10 of their hospital stay, the level of lipids in patients with AMI increased and reached the levels observed in the control group.