[The characteristics of cardiac hyperfunction in virtually healthy middle-aged and elderly subjects]. / Osobennosti giperfunktsii serdtsa u prakticheski zdorovykh lits pozhilogo i starcheskogo vozrasta.

62 apparently healthy persons aged 50-96 years were evaluated by echocardiography. Established in this series were an increase in incidence of hypertrophies of left ventricle with age and change in their qualitative distribution towards predominance of forms associated with sclerotic alterations in myocardium. Relation between different types of hypertrophy and parameters of systemic hemodynamics was noted as was their influence upon contractility of myocardium. The data obtained suggest that moderate hypertrophy of myocardium may have a positive, compensatory role in elderly and old people.

[The effect of Capoten on the systemic and intracardiac hemodynamics in middle-aged and elderly hypertension patients]. / Vliianie kapotena na sistemnuiu i intrakardial'nuiu gemodinamiku u bol'nykh gipertonicheskoi bolezn'iu srednego i pozhilogo vozrasta.

Middle-aged and elderly patients with hypertonic disease were examined before and after three-week treatment with Capoten. In the first treatment resulted in significant fall arterial pressure and general peripheral resistance as well as in improvement of contractility. At the same time in the elderly reduced preload at the background of significantly decreased blood pressure led to restriction of Frank-Starling's mechanism and consequent deterioration of myocardial contractility.

[The peripheral hemodynamics of pregnant women with diabetes mellitus]. / Sostoianie perifericheskoi gemodinamiki u beremennykh, bol'nykh sakharnym diabetom.

The state of the peripheral hemodynamics was studied rheovasographically in 26 pregnant patients suffering of diabetes mellitus and 30 healthy pregnant (pregnancy terms: 26, 27 and 34-40 weeks). Results of the study revealed changes of the peripheral hemodynamics in the pregnant diabetic patients as compared with pregnant women non-diabetics. These changes consisted in non-adequate response of the vascular bed to increased hemodynamic loads at the 27-33 pregnancy week as well as in more significant increase of the tone in the diabetic patients during the first half of pregnancy as compared with the healthy women. These changes may become supplementary criteria for revealing preclinical manifestations of diabetic angiopathies in pregnant diabetic women.