[Cardiac lesion in psoriasis].

The heart of 12 patients with psoriasis at the stage of exacerbation compared to that of 16 practically healthy persons who had died of trauma was studied at the necropsy medical-forensic examination. Microcirculatory vessels with the wall thickening, plasmatic impregnation, mononuclear cell proliferation, focal stromal sclerosis were observed in the myocardium. Disorganization of connective tissue with mucoid edema and diffuse mononuclear cell infiltration of mitral and aortal valves was observed.

[Detection of risk factors for hemodynamic dysadaptation under physical loading by data of genetic studies (echocardiography data) (Part 2)].

Examination in 28 pairs of twins who were studied by echocardiography just after their performance of exercise (Stage I) and at the peak of effects produced by oral anapriline (Stage II) have shown that at rest such parameters as end-systolic volume, ejection fraction, relative changes in the internal dimension of the left ventricular cavity during a cardiac cycle, show moderate-to-high genetic predisposition. At the same time, a persistent contribution of heredity to myocardial contractility is found only for end-systolic volume when the conditions of the examination were changed. The lesser extent to which contractility parameters had hereditable signs, the more intensively they varied under different conditions.