[Serum creatine phosphokinase as a predictor of upper limb amputation in electrical trauma].

Objective: To study the relationship between serum creatine phosphokinase and outcomes of injury in victims with electrical burns.

Material And Methods: Among 40 patients with electrical injury, 7 (18%) ones underwent upper limb amputation. There were 37 (92.

Study of Biointegration and Elastic-Strength Properties of a New Xenopericardium-Based Biomaterial for Reconstructive Cardiovascular Surgery.

We analyzed biocompatibility, elastic-strength properties, and biointegration potential of a new biomaterial made of xenopericardium for reconstructive cardiovascular surgery. The biomaterial manufactured by the proposed technology demonstrated high biocompatibility and biointegration potential and its elastic-strength properties 2-4-fold surpassed that of native pericardium. The obtained results attested to good prospects of using the proposed technology for preparing biomaterials for reconstructive cardiovascular surgery.

[Post Radiotherapy Lesions of the Heart Valves. Principles of Diagnosis and Results of Treatment].

Background: The use of radiation therapy for the treatment of tumors of the chest сan lead to the development of cardiac pathology, including that of the valves and coronary arteries.

Study Aim: to analyze the specifics of post-radiation lesions of the valvular apparatus and coronary arteries, and to assess the immediate results and risks of surgical correction of detected defects. Materials and  methods.

New approach to reduce allograft tissue immunogenicity. Experimental data.

Objectives: Rejection is thought to contribute to the degeneration of valved allografts. Most proposed methods of decellularisation allow usage of treated valves in pulmonic position. We developed a new protocol of devitalization, which provides cell death and suppression of calcification using digitonin and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid.

[Microsurgical autotransplantation of tissues in emergency surgery].

Results of microsurgical transplantation of 177 autotransplants in 167 patients with tissues defects of different origin and location are presented. Surgeries were urgent and elective with 96.6% survival of autotransplants.

[Acute local radiation lesions and their consequences (contingency in flaw inspection)].

Illustrated with case history (patient F), the authors represented diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, long-term consequences of local radiation lesions.

[The action of karbogal on the complement system under model conditions and in an animal experiment].

The influence of dimethylperfluorocyclohexane (carbogal) on the hemolytic activity of human blood serum complement was studied in vitro. It has been show that different effects of carbogol on the complement depend on the serum lipid composition. Endotracheal administration of carbogal to rats results in a significant reduction of complement activity in the animal's blood.