[Efficacy of moxonidine, an imidazoline receptor agonist, in patients with essential hypertension].

Aim: Study of zint (moxonidine), a hypotensive drug with the central mechanism of action.

Materials And Methods: The hemodynamics and platelet functional activity were assessed in 30 patients with essential hypertension treated by zint in a daily dose of 0.4 mg, taken in the morning, for 3 months.

[Anomalous chordae tendineae].

ECG of 322 patients with various cardiovascular diseases allowed the conclusion on the occurrence of anomalous chordae of the heart in 21.7% of cases. The chordae had no effect on the disease diagnosis, running, hemodynamics, left ventricular myocardial mass.