[The PATRIARCH study: effect of passive training on long term treatment results with myocardial infarction].

In order to study long term results of passive training sessions in myocardial infarction in older patients with the use of electromyostimulation (EMS) of skeletal muscles (the PATRIARCH Study) we examined 94 patients with acute myocardial infarction (IM) older than 60 years. Among patients subjected to EMS training we distinguished groups with age 60-69 years (n=19) and older than 70 years (n=32). Control groups also contained patients aged 60-69 years (n=19), and older than 70 years (n=25).

[Repetitive hospitalizations of patients with chronic heart failure according to data of one year follow-up study].

Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) represent a group with high risk of repetitive hospitalizations. In order to assess frequency of repetitive hospitalizations and elucidate their risk factors we included in this study 962 patients with stage IIA-III and functional class II-IV CHF hospitalized in a multiprofile hospital once or repeatedly during 1 year. Rate of rehospitalizations during 1 year was 59%.

[Morton disease].

The author presents a review of 17 Russian and foreign sourses dedicated to Morton's disease and describes a clinical case.

Involvement of the Galbeta1 - 3GalNAcbeta structure in the recognition of apoptotic bodies by THP-1 cells.

A specific apoptotic glycosylation pattern may play an assistant or even a causative role in phagocytosis of apoptotic bodies. To elucidate the role of macrophages in lectin-mediated phagocytosis, an experimental system was used, where monocyte-derived THP-1 cells engulf the apoptotic bodies from the melanoma cell line MELJUSO. A flow cytometry assay was performed to reveal lectin expression and quantify the phagocytosis of apoptotic bodies.