[A case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an 8-month-old baby].

The paper analyzes a death due to undiagnosed asymmetric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an 8-month-old baby. The peculiarities of this case are the extent of myocardial damage, the irreversibility of structural injuries in the absence of clinical symptoms, and a concurrence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and severe pneumonia and meningoencephalitis.

[Treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in relation to clinico- morphological characteristics of the disease]. / Lechenie khronicheskogo limfoleikoza v zavisimosti ot kliniko- morfologicheskikh osobennostei zabolevaniia.

Marrow histomorphometry was performed in 73 untreated chronic lymphoid leukemia (CLL) sufferers. Follow-up results are available for 36 of them: 25 treated and 11 untreated with chemotherapy. The method of marrow histomorphometry allows recognition of three CLL forms: diffuse, diffuse-focal and focal; helps to determine indications to chemotherapy, assess its efficacy, prognosticate the disease course; is more reliable than clinical and laboratory findings.