[Longitudinal global and regional left ventricular function in patients with hypertensive disease (tissue Doppler echocardiography data)].

Impulse tissue doppler study was carried out in 154 patients with hypertensive disease (age 35-60 years) and 39 practically healthy volunteers (mean age 43.4+/-5.5 years).

[Laparoscopic splenectomy in congenital hemolytic anemia in children].

Experience of 48 laparoscopic splenectomies in children aged from 3 to 14 years with congenital hemolytic anemia is analyzed. The main stages of laparoscopic splenectomy were the following: isolation of the inferior pole of the spleen, transection of the gastro-splenic ligament, transection of the splenic vascular trunk (with endostapler or intracorporeal ligature), dissection of the splenic ligaments, removal of the organ (with endoscopic sac or morcellator). One-stage cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis was performed in 11 patients.

[Effect of land reclamation on the transformation of the types of natural tularemia foci].

Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.