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S V Moiseev

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[Polymorphism of vascular angiotensin II receptor gene and cardiovascular disorders].

AIM: To study polymorphism of the gene of vascular angiotensin II receptor. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Polymorphism that consists in variability of adenine (A) and cytosine (C) residues at position 1166 of the gene for vascular angiotensin II receptor (AT1R) was analyzed in a Moscow population (n = 98) and three groups of affected patients with myocardial infarction (n = 32, MI), left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH, n = 38) and essential hypertension (EH, n = 178). Polymorphic region of the AT1R gene was amplified using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and genomic DNAs from human whole blood as template. PCR products were electrophoresied in a gel after digestion with BstDEI restriction nuclease. Significance of differences in distribution of both allele and genotype frequencies at the population sample and in affected patients were estimated via exact Fisher's test. RESULTS: A significant decrease in the frequency of the A genotype was detected in all the three affected groups compared to healthy controls. Besides, the frequency of the A allele was significantly decreased in EH group with a corresponding increase in the frequency of both the AC genotype and the C allele. CONCLUSION: The A1166C polymorphism of the AT1R gene is associated with EH, MI and LVH in a Moscow population. The association is stronger with EH. The A allele and the AA genotype protect against development of disorders at early onset while the other genotypes and the C-allele are risk factors. A protective role of the AA genotype is more significant than predisposition action of the CC homozygote.

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[Myocardial tomoscintigraphy with 201Tl in the diagnosis of cardiac involvement in systemic scleroderma].

Myocardial microcirculation was assessed in 23 scleroderma systematica patients using 201Tl tomoscintigraphy at rest (23 patients) and upon dipyridamole vasodilation (6 patients). Most patients were found to have impaired blood supply of the myocardium with sites of myocardiofibrosis. In response to dipyridamole introduction improved myocardial perfusion was registered in 4 out of 6 patients, 1 patient showed signs of transient myocardial ischemia, 1 patient had stable defects of myocardial blood supply. It is suggested that some sclerodermic patients may benefit from vasodilators.

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[Myocardial scintigraphy with thallium-201 in the diagnosis of cardiac involvement in systemic scleroderma].

201Tl scintigraphy of the myocardium is a highly sensitive method of diagnosis of cardiac damage in SS. More severe lesions occur in patients with diffuse skin affections and subacute SS. Improvement of perfusion in dipiridamol test indicates the contribution of the spasm of microcirculation coronary vessels to the onset of perfusion defects. Further investigations are needed for evaluation of the role various vasodilators have in prevention of perfusion lesions and progressive myocardial fibrosis in SS patients.

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[The assessment of left ventricular diastolic function in patients with systemic scleroderma by radionuclide ventriculography].

To assess left ventricular (LV) diastolic function in scleroderma systematica (SS) with regard to SS course and skin lesion degree, a total of 24 SS patients were examined versus control subjects. Though cardiac symptoms manifested clinically only in 8 patients, parameters of LV diastolic function underwent changes in the majority of the examinees: the time to attaining maximal filling velocity increased, contribution of the first diastolic third to LV filling diminished, hemodynamic significance of the left atrial systole grew. More pronounced dysfunction of the myocardium occurred in patients with diffuse skin lesions, acute and subacute disease who also appeared to have reduced LV ejection fraction. The conclusion is made on frequent subclinical pattern of myocardial involvement in SS patients which runs primarily as LV diastolic dysfunction. Systolic disturbance emerge later or in more active forms.

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[Heart involvement in hypereosinophilia: the restrictive or the dilated type?].

As many as 60 patients with hypereosinophilia of different genesis were examined. 40 of them manifested the clinical (congestive heart failure in 6, tachycardia in 10, cardialgias in 3, murmur in the heart in 13, pericardial murmur in 3) and/or ECG signs (disorders of repolarization in 25, His bundle block in 4, rhythm disorders in 7, pathologic Q waves in 2) of heart injury. In 15 out of the 20 examined, the echocardiography data corresponded to the dilated pattern of heart injury despite the fact that the changes in contractile function of the left ventricle were less appreciable than in 28 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. In 2 patients who died (one from congestive heart failure and one from anaphylactic shock) the presence of endomyocardial fibrosis with heart dilatation was confirmed on postmortem examination. One female patient with right ventricular failure manifested the characteristic signs of isolated injury to the right ventricle. In 3 patients, the endocardium appeared thickened. None of the cases showed the signs of restrictive heart injury. The data obtained indicate that hypereosinophilia may be one of the etiologic factors of dilated cardiomyopathy.

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[Current methods of examination in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis of the heart].

Marked clinical or electrocardiographic changes, suggestive of heart disease, were only detected in 14 (7%) of 190 patients with sarcoidosis. Diffuse myocardial accumulation of 99mTc pyrophosphate (2+ or 3+) was seen in 12 (43%) of 28 patients with active sarcoidosis. Repeated scintigraphy showed normal values in 3 patients after a course of corticosteroid therapy. Echocardiographic signs of heart disease were found in 33 (37%) of 89 patients, including left-ventricular contractility disorders in 21, thinning (5) or thickening (7) of left-ventricular wall and ventricular septum, mitral prolapse in 3 and limited pericardial exudate in 5. Signs of pulmonary heart were detected in 17 patients. Clinical and electrocardiographic symptoms of cardiac sarcoidosis were significantly more frequent in patients with myocardial Tc-pyrophosphate accumulation and echocardiographic changes. It is suggested that myocardial Tc-pyrophosphate scintigraphy and echocardiography may be used for the diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis, including its latent forms.

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[Diagnostic and treatment problems in sarcoidosis in the therapist's practice].

Altogether 231 sarcoidosis patients were observed. Chest x-ray showed stage I in 116 patients, stage II in 111 patients. Corticosteroid therapy was provided to stage II patients only, with signs of alveolitis activity, for which assessment lung scintigraphy with 67Ga, investigation of bronchoalveolar rinse and determination of the blood angiotensin converting enzyme should be performed. Various extrapulmonary manifestations like hepatosplenomegaly, skin rash, cardiac arrhythmia and conduction disorder, urinary syndrome, etc., were revealed in 28 patients. The authors discussed variants of a course of lesions of the internal organs in sarcoidosis, difficulties of their diagnosis, and indications for steroid therapy. They also recommend a further study of the extrathoracic manifestations of sarcoidosis which frequently determine prognosis of this disease (first of all, cardiac, renal and nervous system affections), serve indicators of its activity (erythema nodosum, uveitis, parotitis, etc.) and present considerable diagnostic difficulties.

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[Modern criteria of sarcoidosis activity and approaches to glucocorticoid therapy].

Altogether 190 sarcoidosis patients were investigated including cytology of bronchoalveolar rinses in 31 patients, lung scintigraphy with 67Ga in 48, determination of the blood angiotensin converting enzyme activity in 18, and daily calciuria in 100 patients; 50 patients had erythema nodosum which turned out to be one of the main clinical symptoms of sarcoidosis activity. Corticosteroid therapy in patients with erythema nodosum was performed only in the presence of pulmonary changes and/or changes of the other internal organs. Extrathoracic manifestations (liver, splenic, renal, cardiac, CNS lesions) observed in 34 patients, deteriorated prognosis. Prolonged corticosteroid therapy was necessitated in all the cases; 4 patients were operated upon (splenectomy, nephrectomy, implantation of an artificial pacemaker); 3 patients died suddenly or from uremia. Comparison of the results of instrumental and laboratory methods showed that an increase in the lymphocyte count in bronchoalveolar rinses (by greater than 28%), total T-lymphocytes and T-active cells, 67Ga accumulation in the lungs, raised blood angiotensin converting enzyme activity, and hypercalciuria over 300 mg/day could be used as criteria of alveolitis activity in sarcoidosis. Corticosteroid therapy should be performed in stage II patients with the above symptoms only.

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