[Experience with clinical administration of new drug Thrombovasim® in vascular surgery].

Recent years have witnessed an increased worldwide interest in medical use of unique naturally occurring enzymes - subtilisins possessing pronounced fibrinolytic and anti-inflammatory properties. The article deals with experience in clinical administration in vascular surgery of new therapeutic agent Thrombovasim® containing pegylated subtilisin as an active substance. Thrombovasim® has a favourable profile of safety, good tolerance and causes no severe haemorrhagic complications.

[Assessment of risk factors of atrial fibrillation in patients with metabolic syndrome].

The aim of the work was to identify risk factors of atrial fibrillation (AF) in 151 patients with metabolic syndrome (MS, IDF 2005); 88 of them presented with the recurrent form of AE 63 had no arrhythmia. Practically all patients suffered from arterial hypertension. The groups were comparable in terms of age, concomitant disorders, AH duration, arterial pressure, and severity of chronic heart failure.

[Cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with narrow QRS].

Conduction delay affecting 30-50% of patients with NYHA class III-IV heart failure (HF) mainly results from left bundle branch block and leads to deterioration of cardiac contractility through intra- and interventricular dyssynchrony. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has class I recommendation for the treatment of patients with severe systolic HF who have left ventricular ejection fraction less or equal to 35%, QRS duration greater than or equal to 120 ms. Nevertheless some studies have shown that systolic asynchrony is present in 27-43% of HF patients with narrow QRS complexes (defined as <120 ms).

[Metabolic syndrome and chronic persistent atrial fibrillation].

The aim of the study was to elucidate specific features of chronic recurrent atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with metabolic syndrome (MS) and disturbed carbohydrate metabolism compared with AF patients without MS. It enrolled 145 patients aged 44-83 years: 117 with abdominal obesity (BMI >30 kg/m2, waist circumference >80 and 94 cm in women and men respectively) including 30 without metabolic disturbances; 35 with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), 52 with type 2 DM, and 28 controls without MS. Parameters measured included frequency and severity of AF, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism, albuminurea, C-reactive peptide level, quality of AH control, results of echocardiography and 24 hour ECG monitoring (sinus rhythm), and insulin resistance index (HOMA IRindex).

[Capabilities of hypoglycemic therapy in women with decompensated type 2 diabetes mellitus].

Aim: to comparatively evaluated the efficiency of various sugar-lowering therapy (SLT) options in patients with decompensated type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Subjects And Methods: One hundred and eighty-two women who were over 55 years of age with a more than 3-5-year history of T2DM and more than one-year decompensation, abdominal obesity (AO), arterial hypertension, and concomitant treatment-matched were randomized into 4 groups: (1) metformin (n=46); (2) a combination of metformin and gliclaside MB (n=47); (3) metformin and insulin (n=44); and (4) insulin (n=45). A follow-up was 12 months.