[Comparison of the results of coronary angioplasty and stenting during one year following surgery].

The purpose of the study was to compare long-term results of angioplasty and coronary arterial stenting (CAS) depending on the initial degree of coronary arterial (CA) lesion according to morphological stenosis classification, as well as to evaluate the influence of re-stenosis on myocardial contractility dynamics, anginal recurrence rate, and exercise tolerance. The subjects, 228 men after angioplasty and 184 men after CAS with wire stents without drug coating, were included in the study between 1989 and 2005. Coronarography was repeated in 358 patients one year after surgery. The patients were divided into two groups. The first group consisted of 161 patients, to who 180 stents were implanted. The second group consisted of 197patients, in who 226 angioplasty procedures were performed. Data were processed using standard variational statistical methods, i.e. the calculation of mean values and standard deviation. Statistical calculations were carried out using Analysis ToolPak- VBA software of Microsoft Excel 2000. The study found that one year after either intervention the number of patients without anginal symptoms fell significantly compared with this number during the in-hospital period. In group 2 the frequency of restenosis was higher and the number of patients with anginal symptoms was significantly bigger than in group 1; the number of asymptomatic patients was significantly bigger in group 1. Initial morphological characteristics of CA lesion had a significant effect on the long-term frequency of restenosis following endovascular treatment. Restenosis was 2 to 2.5 times more frequent in patients with C type CA lesion vs. patients with A type regardless the method of endovascular intervention. The results of the study demonstrate the importance of taking into account initial morphological characteristics of CA lesion; CAS is more preferable than angioplasty, especially in patients with C type CA lesion.

[Duodenal function after a Billroth-II gastric resection in preoperative disorders of duodenal patency]. / Sostoianie dvenadtsatiperstnoi kishki posle rezektsii zheludka po Bil'rot--II pri dooperatsionnykh narusheniiakh duodenal'noi prokhodimosti.

Under analysis were results of observations of 112 patients after Billroth-II resection with different modifications who suffered of disorders of the duodenal patency before operation. A conclusion is made of the necessity of a complex preoperative examination of the patients in order to reveal chronic disorders of the duodenal patency as well as of the expediency of using operations correcting the disorders of the duodenal patency--dissection of the Treitz ligament, duodenojejunostomy simultaneously with Billroth-II resection of the stomach.