Terapevt Arkh
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Mortality in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and its complications remains high, despite significant advances in the treatment of coronary heart disease and its complications. One of the most life - threatening complications of ACS is cardiogenic shock (CS). CS is an extreme degree of acute heart failure and develops on average in 5-8% of patients hospitalized with ACS. In the present work, we analyzed data from Russian Federal ACS Registry - frequency of CS occurrence, treatment methods, and outcomes of ACS complicated by CS.
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Tumors in the heart are rare and difficult to diagnose pathologies. There are primary and secondary tumors, the letter tumors include metastases of other tumors. In this work is presented clinical case of metastatic lesion of the right atrium with renal cell carcinoma. Modern methods of diagnostics of patients with intracardiac formations are discussed.
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to estimate the effects of exercise training on erectile function after coronary artery bypass grafting. ⋯ Aerobic exercise trainings appeared to be effective for optimizing exercise tolerance, erectile and endothelial function, and allow improving the prognosis of these patients and, therefore, are needed to be included in the rehabilitation programs for patients undergoing CABG.
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Despite significant advances in therapy, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) remains a progressive disease with a poor prognosis. Immediately after establishing the diagnosis of PAH, urgent treatment with PAH-specific therapy is required. ⋯ The REVEAL scale and the ESC/ERS 2015 risk assessment table are important multifactorial tools for making decisions about the prescription and correction of PAH therapy, as well as for assessment of patients' response to therapy. Current guidelines for PAH indicate that the most important task of treatment of PAH is to achieve the low - risk status.
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To study the risk factors, symptoms and outcomes of candidemia caused by C. albicans and C. non - albicans in patients with hematological malignancies. ⋯ C. non - albicans constituted a high proportion among causative agents of candidemia. High mortality rate was observed in both groups. Initial therapy with echinocandin was associated with increase of survival.