Effect of intravenous low-intensity laser irradiation of the blood on clinical and laboratory parameters of hepatocellular insufficiency.

Patients with hepatocellular insufficiency received a course of intravenous laser irradiation of the blood. After the treatment, a positive dynamics of clinical and biochemical indices of the major hepatic syndromes was observed: alleviation of the major clinical symptoms and significant positive changes in biochemical parameters (AST, ALT, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase, and total cholesterol).

[The role of cardiovascular diseases among the reasons for the transfer ahead of schedule of specialists working in the tropics]. / Rol' serdechno-sosudistykh zabolevanii sredi prichin dosrochnogo otkomandirovaniia spetsialistov, rabotaiushchikh v tropikakh.

The authors have considered the causes of inability to continue working in tropic climate because of health deterioration for 359 specialists and 19 lethal cases. The main cause of inability to work in tropical climate and primary cause of death was cardiovascular disease. One-third of the cases were due to exacerbation of chronic diseases. The exacerbations occurred more frequently in the most intensive phases of adaptation. Measures which should be taken to prevent breakdown of health in subjects working in tropical conditions are recommended.

[Incidence of acute myocardial infarction among Soviet specialists after long-term work in the tropics]. / Zabolevaemost' ostrym infarktom miokarda Sovetskikh spetsialistov, dlitel'no rabotaiushchikh v tropikakh.

The paper presents the results of epidemiological survey of acute myocardial infarction morbidity rates among the Soviet specialists who worked in the Republic of Cuba. A total of 54,765 individuals aged 20-59 years were examined within 10 years. There were 48 cases of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The morbidity rate in males and females was 1.44 and 0.08 per 1,000, respectively. The morbidity rate was 22.9%; death rate in males and females was 0.28 and 0.08 per 1,000, respectively. The incidence of major risk factors in AMI patients and the relation of the morbidity rates of the specialists to the specific features of their adaptation to an emergency of the tropics were considered. Some trends of practical measures were defined to reduce AMI morbidity rates in specialists moving to the tropics to work.

[Hemosorption in the complex treatment of acute myocardial infarction]. / Gemosorbtsiia v kompleksnoi terapii ostrogo infarkta miokarda.

Hemosorption was used in 41 cases of acute myocardial infarction. It improved blood rheologic properties and central hemodynamic parameters, and had a good clinical effect, reducing complications and mortality rates. Therefore hemosorption can be recommended as part of combined treatment for acute myocardial infarction.

Kinetics of the left and right heart ventricles revealed by precardial cardiography as manifestations of compensatory reaction in myocardial infarction.

A comparative study of the function of the left hand and right ventricles in different myocardial infarction periods was carried out in 100 patients. The principal method used for specific analysis of the phase structure in the function of the left and right ventricles was that of precardial cardiography. The data obtained indicate that in the acute infarction stage both ventricles function hypodynamically. Later, some asynchronism in the restoration of the affected contractile function of both ventricles is observed. The study of the kinetics of the left and right heart ventricles enables one to evaluate the markedness of the compensatory processes and some of their mechanisms.