[Clinical features and prognosis in heart failure patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases].

Background: Multimorbidity is a specific characteristic of the modern patient with chronic heart failure (CHF) which significantly changes clinical course, prognosis of the syndrome, leads to socio‑economic losses and makes significant adjustments to treatment tactics. The goal is to study the clinical features and prognosis of patients with CHF in combination with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Materials And Methods: We studied 183 HF patients, including with stable CHF, including 105 with CHF combined with COPD.

[Efficacy of adepress (paroxetine) in the treatment of depression in patients with chronic cerebral ischemia in the late recovery phase of ischemic stroke with the estimation of the velocity of passive transmembrane ion transport].

We studied the correlation between the efficacy of adepress (paroxerine) and the state of cell membranes assessed by the velocity of passive transmembrane ion transport in 39 patients (20 patients with chronic brain ischemia and 19 patients with ischemic stroke). Velocity of passive transmembrane ion transport estimated by the level of Na+-Li+ counter-transport (NLC) in the erythrocyte membrane was a criterion of the cell membrane functional activity. The higher the NLC velocity, the more severe was the course of depression with the development of cognitive dysfunction and pain syndromes in patients with chronic brain ischemia and stroke.

[The functional features of cell membranes in children with bronchitis and pneumonias].

To develop new differential and diagnostic markers of different types of bronchopulmonary diseases, sodium-lithium countertransport through the red blood cell membrane was studied in 119 children, including 30 patients with bronchitis, 21 with pneumonia, and 68 apparently healthy children (a control group). The majority of patients with pneumonia were found to have the maximum high sodium-lithium countertransport rate as compared with patients with bronchitis, although high sodium-lithium countertransport rates are generally typical of children with bronchopulmonary diseases, as shown by absolute values. These indices may be attributable to the influence of a genetic determinant and environmental factors.