Vol 25, No 10 (2014)

The paper considers up-to-date technologies used to treat patients with esophageal neuromuscular diseases. It presents a treatment algorithm based on many years’ experience and good long-term results, by taking into account the stage of the diseases.

Neonatal pecilomycosis is a serious risk factor for helminth infection in children aged 2 to 5 years.

When treating patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, it is very important to eliminate its signs on the first days of therapy since this improves patient adherence to treatment. The antisecretory effect of proton pump inhibitors develops comparatively slowly and their combination with alginates allows heartburn to be eliminated within the first 24 hours of therapy.

Uniform approaches to treating and preventing cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases have been elaborated in neurocardiology. Coronatera may be the drug of choice in their preventive pharmacotherapy.

Whether the enteric microflora and obesity can be mutually influenced is being investigated since their causal relationships are not fully clear. The findings indicate that a search for methods that affect the enteric microflora is promising in treating obesity.

The paper gives the results of treatment in 32 patients with involutional osteoporosis and osteoarthrosis of the small joints of the hands and feet with significant pain syndrome.

A relationship between the data of carotid artery duplex scanning and the degree of coronary atherosclerosis (CA) was studied using the angiographic Gensini scale. The sensitivity of the technique in identifying moderate or severe CA was 87.1%.

The paper covers the experience in clinically using allapinine in 218 patients with coronary heart disease after coronary bypass graft surgery. All the patients had at baseline a history of concomitant prognostically important tachyarhythmias. Different antiarrhythmic drug regimens were comparatively analyzed.

Bone mineral density (BMD) was determined by dual-energy X-ray bone densitometry in 36 patients with toxic phosphorus osteonecrosis of the facial skeleton. There was a significant excess of the mean BMD values in the lumber vertebrae and femoral neck. Analysis revealed a weak positive relationship between the increase in LI-IV BMD and the spread of a pathological process to the facial bones (r = 0.374; p < 0.05) and the history of addiction (r = 0.372; p < 0.05).

Patients with medial fractures of the femoral neck underwent metal osteosynthesis using an original metal construction. Bone fragments were repositioned on a fracture table, by applying a skeletal extension system with a precomputed load according to the procedure developed by the authors.