[An improved classification of chronic heart failure].

A clinicofunctional classification is proposed of chronic cardiac insufficiency (ChCI), based on the modified classification by Strazhesko-Vasilenko on the syndrome type and New York Association of Cardiologists. Each of the clinically important functional classes is subdivided into subclasses. Clinically manifest ChCI is subdivided into reversible, partly reversible and irreversible subclasses.

[The clinical classification of ischemic heart disease].

The IHD classification needs to be brought up-to-date, for the existing IHD classifications according to WHO and All-Union Research Centre for Cardiology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR have already become outdated and require additions to be made. In view of the above-stated, the contributors to this article propose an updated IHD classification, having supplemented it with new forms of the disease. This will help physicians in studying pathogenesis, clinical course of the disease, as well as in developing specific therapies and preventive measures to be instituted in this particular disease.

[The dynamic echocardiographic indices after restoration of the sinus rhythm in patients with the compensated type of atrial fibrillation].

The authors observed 19 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) and compensatory intracardiac hemodynamics accounting for 10% of all their examinees with AF. Following the retaining of sinus rhythm with the help of lanicor, nitrosorbide and lasix patients of group 1 exhibited increased Vs, Vd, Vcf, EF against decreased left atrial size and left atrial index. Patients of groups 2 and 3 in whom the conversion of sinus rhythm occurred due to guanidine or electric impulses, respectively, the above indices changed insignificantly.