[Relationship of visceral obesity and coronary calcinosis in ischemic heart disease].

Aim: To assess the relationship between the prevalence of visceral obesity (VO) and the severity of coronary calcification (CC) in patients with verified coronary artery disease (CAD).

Materials And Methods: 125 patients with CAD were examined. Assessment of the morphometric characteristics of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and CC was perform using multislice computed tomography (MSCT).

Relationship between Epicardial and Coronary Adipose Tissue and the Expression of Adiponectin, Leptin, and Interleukin 6 in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease.

Adipose tissue (AT) is an endocrine and paracrine organ that synthesizes biologically active adipocytokines, which affect inflammation, fibrosis, and atherogenesis. Epicardial and perivascular fat depots are of great interest to researchers, owing to their potential effects on the myocardium and blood vessels. The aim of the study was to assess the expression and secretion of adipocytokine genes in the AT of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and patients with aortic or mitral valve replacement.

Prognostic potential of cardiac structural and functional parameters and N-terminal propeptide of type III procollagen in predicting cardiac fibrosis one year after myocardial infarction with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction.

The aim of the study were to evaluate the prognostic potential of serum level of N-terminal propeptide procollagen type III (PIIINP) and heart parameters for predicting heart cardiac fibrosis 1 year after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). 68 patients with STEMI and preserved LVEF with acute heart failure of the I-III degree according to the Killip classification were examined. Echocardiography was performed and PIIINP levels were measured on days 1 and 12, as well as 1 year after STEMI.

The relationship of the epicardial fat and adipo-fibrokines in myocardial infarction.

Analysis of the relationship between the epicardial fat with adipokine and system ST2/IL-33 in-hospital period, and also with the extent of fibrosis of the atrial myocardium through the year after myocardial infarction in patients with visceral obesity. Examined 88 patients with myocardial infarction (MI). Visceral obesity (VO) is established by computed tomography.

[Adiponectin gene expression in local fat depots in patients with coronary heart disease depending on the degree of coronary lesion].

Aim: To determine the dependence of adiponectin gene expression by subcutaneous, epicardial and perivascular adipocytes on the degree of coronary lesion in coronary heart disease.

Materials And Methods: 84 patients with coronary artery disease were examined. Of these, 39 people showed a moderate degree of atherosclerotic lesion of the coronary bed (less than or equal to 22 points) on the SYNTAX Score scale, 20 severe (2231 points), and 25 extremely severe (more than 32 points).