[Ultrasonic diagnosis in selecting the treatment method for varicocele].

The paper deals with ultrasound diagnosis as a modality able to recognize indications either to surgical or endovascular treatment of varicocele. Forty-two patients aged 12-28 with varicocele degree I-III were examined using sector ultrasonic transducers (3.5,5 MHz) which visualized renal and internal testicular veins.

[Diagnostic prospects of angiography in pyo-destructive processes in the kidney].

The article is devoted to search for indications and more exact differential diagnostic criteria of angiographic methods of diagnosis of pyo-inflammatory diseases of the kidney. Of most informative value is the selective renal arteriography and pharmacophlebography which gave more exact differential diagnostic criteria.

[Indices of testicular endosecretory function and of the status of the hypophyseal-gonadal system in varicocele].

Testicular intrasecretory function and gonad-hypophyseal regulation were studied in 28 patients with the left-sided varicocele whose age varied from 11 to 36 years. Radioimmunoassay was used for the assessment of testosterone, estradiol, progesterone, follicle-stimulating (FS) and luteinizing (L) hormones and prolactin levels in the blood samples from femoral and internal testicular veins taken during endovascularization of varicocele. With regard to the age and manifestations of the secondary sexual signs the patients were divided into three groups.

[Functional status of the right heart in patients with nephrogenic hypertension].

Marked hemodynamic disorders in the right heart were demonstrated in patients with nephrogenic arterial hypertension: they were high diastolic blood pressure and the right-ventricular hypodynamic syndrome, dependent on the duration of underlying disease and aortic diastolic blood pressure level.