The effect of 3-weeks stationary cardiac rehabilitation on plasma lipids level in 444 patients with coronary heart disease.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of 3-weeks stationary cardiac rehabilitation on plasma lipids level in patients with CHD. The study included 444 consecutive patients (364 male and 80 female, mean age 58 +/- 9 year) with CHD who underwent 3-weeks stationary cardiac rehabilitation. Patients were divided into groups depending on their baseline levels of cholesterol and medication therapy: patients with normal (< 5 mmol/L, group I, 129 patients) and elevate plasma level of Total cholesterol (> 5 mmol/L, group II, 315 patients) and subgroups Ia and IIa (with statin in therapy), Ib and IIb (without statin in therapy).

[Urinary bladder incontinence after prostatectomy. Urodynamic evaluation and results of therapy].

Forty-seven males referred due to postprostatectomy urinary incontinence (34 after transurethral resection of prostatic adenoma and 13 after open suprapubic adenomectomy) were retrospectively studied. Urodynamic evaluation identified 19 (40.4%) men with incontinence due solely to sphincter incompetence, and 19 (40.

[Brain death--modern concepts].

Traditional definition of death-cessation of heart function-became obsolete, because it was indisputably ascertained that brain function may be totally an irreversibly destroyed, while other parts of the body continue to live including the heart. So the definition of death switched from the heart to brain function--a brain stem dead patient becomes'' a corps with a beating heart "(ghostly aspects of the medical progress). Early recognition of brain death before the unavoidable cessation of circulation is the basis of organ(s) transplantation.

[Recurrent urinary infection as the first sign of neurogenic disease-- detrusor sphincter dyssynergia].

In 35 patients with recurrent urinary tract infection and kidney disease, dysfunction of micturition mechanism was found. The causes of neurogenic disease include: trauma and spinal degenerative diseases as well as the development of chronic disorders of the spinal cord. These diseases are a predisposing factor in the development of lower tract infections.

Hereditary antigen characteristics of blood in ischemic cerebrovascular accident.

In order to determine genetic differences between 50 examinees with ischemic cerebrovascular accident (iCVA) and those of comparative group, we have chosen 1883 persons from phenotypic healthy population divided into 5 different subgroups. The purpose of our investigation was exploring hereditary characteristics of antigenes linked to erythrocyte membrane. The highest discriminating value in genetic distance had MN and ABO genetic loci.