No 29 (2013)

The article presents the latest data on the prevalence of diabetes mellitus, the features of micronutrient status of these patients, the consequences of vitamin and mineral deficiency and its correction.

Based on the non-satisfactory results of the medicamental treatment of gastric cancer, the constant search is being carried out for new drugs with a sparing specter of side effects. Given the results of some investigations, it was assumed that Her-2-positive status of gastric cancer was associated with the aggressive disease course and unfavorable prognosis. According to publications data, clinical efficiency and safety of trastuzumab in combination with the first-line chemotherapy was assessed in patients with metastatic gastric cancer and Her-2 hypersecretion.

The review of the literature includes the features of the clinical pyelonephritis course and the possibilities of the laboratory diagnostics of the disease with analysis of new medical methods of the urine investigation. The role of microscopic, serological, bacteriological, molecular-biological, and morphological investigation was demonstrated. Their diagnostic opportunities, informativeness, availability, simplicity, and economy of execution were shown in assessment of the disease stage and the control of the efficiency of treatment and prophylaxis of the chronic pyelonephritis.

Our experience of the endovascular embolization of AVM with 3D-roadmapping convincingly showed that usage of this technique is possible and effective. In comparison with two-dimensional navigation, greater amount of radical operations were performed. Reduction of the time of catheterization of AVM-feeding arteries as well as the volume of required contrast agent was also observed.

The article presents a new method to diagnose the pathology of macular pigment in repeatedly pregnant women with myopia differently dependent on the age as well as on both refraction and peripheral alterations in cases without clear symptoms when traditional ophthalmic examination doesn’t reveal any existing pathology.

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of clinical course of dyscirculatory encephalopathy in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation. Clinical-and-instrumental data were analyzed and compared between patients with dyscirculatory encephalopathy associated with atrial fibrillation and patients with dyscirculatory encephalopathy due to hypertension and cerebral atherosclerosis without rhythm disturbances. The studies conducted are indicative of the necessity of complex treatment for all patients with atrial fibrillation to predict cerebral stroke and vascular dementia.

This paper presents a new method of endoprosthetics of the congenital and acquired defects of the TMJ in children and adolescents. The fundamental difference of the said endoprosthesis from that known in medicine is the ability to adjust the length of the mandibular condyle, both during surgery and postoperatively, using minimally invasive surgical techniques. The developed prosthesis of mandibular condyle allows correcting its length (height) with the growth of bone tissue and age of the patient, excluding the development of severe secondary facial bone deformations and the need for repeated surgery to replace the implant.

Analysis of the clinical-and-epidemiological parameters of the stroke was carried out and the prevalence of arterial hypertension was studied as one of the leading factors of stroke development among the residents of the small regional settlement of the Moscow Region. The epidemiological data obtained are indicative of the high stroke morbidity. A significant prevalence of the arterial hypertension was found in the population studied as well as an insufficient control and low understanding by patients of the necessity of regular taking antihypertensive drugs.