[Clinical and instrumental predictors of survival in patients with chronic heart failure and intact systolic left ventricle function]. / Kliniko-instrumental'nye prediktory vyzhivaemosti bol'nykh s khronicheskoi serdechnoi nedostatochnost'iu i sokhranennoi sistolicheskoi funktsiei levogo zheludochka.

165 patients with clinically-manifested chronic heart failure (CHF) and preserved (ejection fraction--EF > 40%) left ventricular (LV) systolic function have been investigated. 135 of them have ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and high blood pressure, 8 patients are without IHD and 22 patients with normal blood pressure. 62 patients have chronic atrial fibrillation. Survival value in patients with CHF and preserved LV systolic function was compared to survival value of those with CHF and impaired ejection fraction (EF < 40%). Patients with preserved LV systolic function have been found to be with better survival value than those with impaired ejection fraction (68 and 33% accordingly).

[Risk assessment for development of sudden cardiac death in patients with progressive angina (based on results of 4-year prospective study)]. / Metody otsenki riska razvitiia vnezapnoi kardial'noi smerti u bol'nykh, perenesshikh progrssiruiushchuiu stenokardiiu (po rezul'tatam 4-letnego prospektivnogo nabliudeniia).

In a 4-year follow-up of those patients having survived progressive angina (PA), the incidence rate was estimated of development of sudden cardiac death (SCD), with the aid of the Caplan-Mayer method and that of life tables. SCD rate has come to be 21.4% and 7.2% in the main group and that of patients free from structural affection of the myocardium. It is during the first year of the follow-up that patients with prior PA were at the greatest risk for SCD. It has been ascertained that aneurysm of the left ventricle and presence of chronic I-II degree cardiac insufficiency are independent and significant risk factors for SCD in those patients with history of PA.