[Diagnostic value of cardiac troponin T increase in critically ill patients].

There are presently reports on elevated levels of cardiac troponins in patients without acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The objective of this investigation was to study the diagnostic value of increased blood cardiac troponin T levels in patients without its clinical picture and ECG changes characteristic of AMI. The study covered 72 patients (48 males and 24 females) aged 54 to 87 years (mean 69.

[Informative value of the parameter "effective concentration of albumin" in diffuse peritonitis: data from a multi-center study].

The paper represents data on new potentialities in evaluating a severity of patients with total peritonitis (TP). They are based on the fluorescence analysis of the physical-and-chemical properties of blood albumin. The findings are a result of a multi-center research undertaken by clinics of Moscow and Moscow Region.

[Intraoperative monitoring of transcranial hemodynamics in gerontological patients under general anesthesia in abdominal surgeries].

The efficiency of up-to-date medical technologies is closely related to the development of methods and tools of objective control over the patients' state in the process of treatment. The problem of continuous control over diagnostic information occupies a special place in the medicine of critical states, since the monitoring of the patient's current state can be of vital importance. The development of tools for the monitoring of the patients' state is based on the recording of physiological data and their further evaluation with the purpose of determination of indices characterizing the operation of the most important systems of the organism.

[Comparative evaluation of methods of analgesia in a series of abdominal operations in gerontological patients].

People at the retirement age make up one fifth of the whole population in Russia, about 11% of them (3.2 million) being older than 80. The life expectancy will become 69.