[Long-term outcomes of balloon angioplasty for aortic coarctation].

From 1994 to 2001 balloon angioplasty was fulfilled for 19 patients aged from 4 to 28 (mean 11.0+/-7.0) with discrete type aortic coarctation.

[The personality characteristics of normal pregnant women and in pathology].

Altogether 357 pregnant women were examined for the personality traits using a method of an all-round study of the personality. In 96 women (group I), the course of gestation appeared favourable, whereas in 134 women, it was complicated by late gestosis (group II), and in 127 women, by threatening premature delivery (group III). The personality traits of the group I women turned out to keep within the limits of the "conditional norm" in the presence of moderate anxiety.