Venous Excess Ultrasound Score Is Associated with Worsening Renal Function and Reduced Natriuretic Response in Patients with Acute Heart Failure.

The venous excess ultrasound score (VExUS) is used to objectify systemic venous congestion. The aim of the paper was to determine the association between VExUS grades and worsening renal function (WRF), reduced natriuretic response, diuretics resistance, and mortality in patients with acute heart failure (AHF). One hundred patients were included, and Doppler ultrasound of hepatic, portal, and renal veins was performed.

[Exudative pericarditis with tamponade after COVID-19. Case report].

A description of a COVID-19 patient with the development of exudative pericarditis complicated by cardiac tamponade is provid. A peculiarity of this case is the presence of an underlying disease in the patient (chronic lymphocytic leukemia), which was in remission for 1.5 years after chemotherapy.

[Efficient treatment of chronic respiratory failure associated with morbid obesity].

Severe obesity sometimes leads to chronic respiratory failure. This condition is termed obesity-hypoventilation or Pickwickian syndrome. This article reports clinical observation illustrating effectiveness of noninvasive pressure support ventilation for the treatment of hypercapnic respiratory failure in a patient with morbid obesity.

[Certain indices of blood and leukocyte index of intoxication caused by tumor].

While tumors stage III-IV of hollow organs involved lowered lymphocyte count matched by relatively high leukocyte index of intoxication, those parameters remained unchanged in parenchymatous cancer. Changes in lymphocyte count were both rarer and more irregular in all tumor sites. Similar changes occurred in post-operative pyo-destructive complications of hollow organs.

[The characteristics of the sexual development of boys suffering from obesity].

RIA tests to determine the blood levels of gonadotropins, prolactin and different fractions of androgens have shown that the time course of the endogenous level of gonadotropins and androgens in boys aged 9 to 16 with Il-III degree of obesity without clinical signs of disturbed puberty is of the same type as that in healthy boys. However much lower concentrations of testosterone and FSH with a high level of LH and dehydroepiandrosterone were noted in the former. A single administration of chorionic gonadotropin has shown that in normal puberty first develops a mechanism of rapid excretion of testosterone into blood with its maximum concentration in 24-48 h, followed by the development of a mechanism of long-term activation of androgenesis at later stages of puberty.