Minimally invasive multivessel coronary bypass surgery: Angiographic patency data.

Objective: Minimally invasive multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting (MIM CABG) has demonstrated its safety, effectiveness and high rate of reproducibility. However, minithoracotomy CABG is still rarely performed. In this study, we retrospectively analyze the CT-angiographic graft patency rates for the patients subjected to this operation.

[Bickerstaff's encephalitis].

A clinical case of Bickerstaff encephalitis, an autoimmune neuropathy, which affects central and peripheral nerve systems, is presented. This article describes problems of the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Results of MRI, PET, electrophysiological and immunological studies are presented.

[Computed tomography in the diagnosis of tuberculous spondylitis complicated by neurological disorders].

Computed tomographic data were studied in 50 patients with evolutional forms of tuberculous spondylitis and 3 patients with its sequels. 95% of the patients were operated on. Cross sections displayed 3 variants of vertebral body destruction in tuberculous spondylitis.

[Clinical and radiographic manifestations of tuberculous spondylitis in adults].

Data on 348 adult patients with tuberculous spondylitis treated in 1994-1999 are analyzed. The radiation manifestations of spondylitis first occurring in maturity, which amount to 82.3% in the clinical setting were studied in 112 patients.

[Ultrasound diagnosis of retroperitoneal abscesses in spinal tuberculosis].

Sixty four patients were examined to elucidate the capacities and accuracy of ultrasonography (USG) in the diagnosis of retroperitoneal abscesses by ultrasound and X-ray studies. They were all operated on. Retroperitoneal abscesses were detected in patients (58 observations).

[Magnetic resonance imaging in the complex radiation diagnosis of tuberculous spondylitis in adults].

The paper analyzes X-ray study and MR imaging of 36 adult patients with tuberculosis spondylosis having an active process developed in maturity (n = 20) and sequelae of childhood spondylitis (n = 16). X-ray study is shown to retain its basic value in the diagnosis of spondylitis. MRI is the optimum technique for early diagnosis of inflammatory changes in the spine and soft tissues, the method of choice in neurological disorders.

[Radiologic diagnosis of osteoarticular tuberculosis and borderline skeletal diseases].

A total of 3305 ill children and adults treated for skeletal diseases and lesions underwent primary and follow-up radiation studies. Patients with spinal diseases amounted to 72%, of them 58% were found to have neurological diseases, 28% had articular diseases. The examination of patients involved X-ray tomography, contrast myelotomography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging.