[An echocardiographic study of the cardiovascular system in patients with kyphoscoliotic deformation of the spine in Marfan's syndrome].

In the work are presented the results of echocardiographic investigation of 19 patients (aged 11-15) with kyphoscoliotic spine deformities at the Marfan's syndrome. The analysis of the obtained data has shown that the most common type of the cardiovascular system pathology in 78.9% of the examined children and adolescents was the II and III stage prolapse of the mitral valve.

[Clinico-roentgenological and physiological evaluation of the spine in patients with juvenile kyphosis].

203 patients with juvenile kyphosis, aged 11-16 years, have been subjected to the complex examination, including ++clinico-roentgenologic and physiologic methods. Along with the cardinal signs, common for juvenile kyphosis diagnosis and characteristic of the dystrophic process (wedge distortion, osteoporosis of vertebra bodies and fragmentation of their apophyses, dedifferentiation of the bone structure, height reduction and pathologic restructuring of intervertebral disks following the pattern of fibrosis, presence of discal hernia), the signs of bone ++ dysplasia of spine and skeleton in general should be singled out of the roentgenologic characteristic of disease which determine the variants of pathologic process course and treatment tactics. The presence of dysontogenesis signs in patients with juvenile kyphosis is suggested.