[Right ventricular function and the hemodynamic status of patients with unstable stenocardia]. / Funktsiia pravoho shlunochka i stan hemodynamiky u khvorykh z nestabil'noiu stenokardiieiu.

With the purpose of studying the condition of haemodynamics and function of the right ventricle in 28 patients with unstable stenocardia paired transesophageal electrocardiostimulation and bicycle ergometry [correction of veloergometry] were done with recording of echocardiographic indicators at the height of stress-tests. Important changes were identified in the right ventricular ejection fraction peculiar to changes of end-diastolic and end-systolic volumes in conditions of simulating myocardial infarction.

[The pathophysiological basis of the destabilization of the clinical course in ischemic heart disease]. / Patofiziolohichna osnova destabilizatsiï klinichnoho perebihu ishemichnoï khvoroby serdtsia.

The role of the coagulative blood system in initiation of acute coronary events was investigated on patients with different clinical forms of ischemic heart disease (IHD). The obtained results indicate that unstable angina (UA) and myocardial infarction (MI) are two independent forms of the acute IHD with distinct qualitative peculiarities. The most common feature of UA was an increase in the functional activity of platelets both in cases proceeded in MI and in uncomplicated cases. It means that these changes may be treated as the main pathogenic factor if UA but not as a mechanism of its transformation to MI. But high degree of the risk of MI development appears if these changes are combined with preceding significant disturbances in the haemostatic balance as a result of inhibition of the activity of anticoagulative and fibrinolytic blood systems. These data show that differentiation of the diagnosis between UA and MI in its initial stage and the choice of the treatment principles should be based on the careful investigation of the coagulative potential of blood and of its most important components.