[Behçet's disease: clinical and demographic associations].

Aim: To comparatively study the clinical manifestations, sexual and HLA-B51 associations in patients with Behçet's disease (BD) in two ethnic groups.

Subjects And Methods: The authors examined 143 patients with the valid diagnosis of BED who were divided into 2 groups: 1) 85 patients, the dwellers of Dagestan (a multiethnic cohort), 63 men and 22 women (mean age 29 +/- 7.4 years); 2) 58 Russian men and women (mean age 33 +/- 11.

[Sensitivity and specificity of hemostatic indices in the diagnosis of thromboembolism of the pulmonary artery in patients with cardiovascular diseases].

Fifty-four patients with pulmonary arterial thromboembolism were investigated. Pulmonary embolism was associated with acute myocardial infarction in 16 cases and with congestive circulatory insufficiency in 38 cases of postinfarction and atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis. Clinical signs as well as electrocardiographic and roentgenographic data showed low sensitivity due to the severity of underlying disease and pre-existing electrocardiographic and roentgenographic changes.

[Pulmonary artery thromboembolism: its clinical and coagulative diagnosis].

A total of 250 subjects were investigated using a diagnostic search flow-chart. Pulmonary artery thromboembolism (PATE) was diagnosed in 102 patients. The results have demonstrated the value of laboratory tests employed--markers of thrombin- and plasminemia and platelet activation--for PATE diagnosis.