[The characteristics of actual curse of infectious endocarditis in cardiac surgery hospital].

The demographic and clinical data of 520 patients with infectious endocarditis treated in 2005-2017 was analyzed with the purpose to assess current trends in epidemiology and approaches to surgical correction of infectious endocarditis. The analysis established increasing of absolute number of patients with infectious endocarditis, their average age and number of female patients. The incidence of early prosthetic endocarditis and its hospital mortality decreased. The study determined increasing of number of emergency interventions, more frequent valve-preserving operations, increasing of number of interventions for perivascular lesions and more frequent application of bioprostheses.

[Use of thymogen in the treatment of various forms of acute abdominal disorders in an experiment]. / Primenenie timogena v lechenii nekotorykh vidov ostroi abdominal'noi patologii v éksperimente.

The authors have carried out experimental studies of thymogen action on the course of acute pancreatitis and acute peritonitis in white albino rat males. The preparation was introduced into the abdominal cavity early after the modeling and every 24 hours for 5 days. The results of the trial demonstrate that the degree of autoenzyme aggression (the data of blood serum alpha-amylolytic activity control) and the content of lipid peroxidation products (assessment of malonic dialdehyde quantity in tissue homogenate) were low in the experimental group as compared to the untreated animals. In the experimental group less pronounced depression of antiradical activity (superoxide dismutase and catalase activity control) was found, leukocytosis and leukocyte intoxication index were diminished. Thus, the efficiency of thymogen in acute inflammatory and destructive abdominal diseases has been proved.