Klinicheskaia meditsina
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Klinicheskaia meditsina · Jan 1994
Comparative Study[Jejunoileal bypass in the prevention and treatment of clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis in patients with morbid obesity].
Jejunoileostomy effects on blood lipids and cardiovascular system were investigated in obese patients. They were found to lose 30% of their body mass within 6 postoperative months with parallel reduction in concentrations of total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL and VLDL cholesterol and apoprotein B. ⋯ Significant changes were not registered in post- and preoperative levels of HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-1. Jejunoileostomy promoted a fall in blood pressure, a rise in exercise tolerance, alleviation of atherosclerosis symptoms.
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Klinicheskaia meditsina · Jan 1994
[Laboratory diagnosis of disseminated intravascular blood coagulation syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis].
DIC-syndrome frequently associated with anemia is one of rheumatoid arthritis complications which runs latently in the presence of hypercoagulation and low fibrinolytic activity. The development of DIC syndrome in the above patients correlates with the process activity, pattern of the disease, is independent of rheumatoid arthritis stage and duration, the patients' age, immunological and serological characteristics. Concentrations of circulating immune complexes and DIC-syndrome are related in rheumatoid arthritis patients with anemia.