[Mechanical hemolysis in patients with mitral and aortic valve prostheses]. / Mekhanicheskii gemoliz u bol'nykh s protezami mitral'nogo i aortal'nogo klapanov serdtsa.

The examination of 25 patients operated upon has shown that alterations of functions of the artificial prostheses of the heart valves can be timely detected by a complex of laboratory studies (determination of activity of lactate dehydrogenase, osmotic resistance of erythrocytes, reticulocyte content, hemoglobin and morphological features of erythrocytes).

[Surgical treatment of multiple heart valve defects]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie mnogoklapannykh porokov serdtsa.

The article deals with the study of problems of the surgical treatment of patients with multivalvular heart diseases. Problems of myocardial protection, the methods for correcting tricuspid disease, and the attitude towards attendant valvular diseases depending on their severity are discussed on the grounds of the analysis of hospital fatality rate in a group fo 505 patients who underwent one-stage correction of two or three defective heart valves and the appraisal of late results. Analysis of the late results indicates that a more radical approach to the surgical treatment of mitral valvular disease is necessary and that marked relative insufficiency and all forms of organic tricuspid disease must be corrected without fail.