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L I Kovaleva

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[The central hemodynamics of participants in the cleanup of the sequelae of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station 4 years after the accident].

Investigations of the central haemodynamics and myocardial contractility in 73 men, who took part in repairing after the Chernobyl accident in 1986, in 4 years after the accident have shown the hyperkinetic type of circulation in 60.2%, eukinetic in 23.2%, hypokinetic in 15.6% of the examinees. Such changes of the central haemodynamics, increased frequency of the hyperkinetic type are due to the regulatory disorders decreasing the vascular tone in the major and minor circles, amplifying the venous return to heart and increasing the myocardial contractility.

Accidents

[Hypokininemia in chronic bronchitis caused by cotton dust].

Examination of 102 patients who developed bronchitis due to exposure to cotton dust running a complicated or noncomplicated course recognized a moderate hyperkininemia in 40% of cases (4.46 +/- 0.43 against the normal 2.90 +/- 0.42) and apparent hypokininemia in 60-63% of cases (0.52 +/- 0.03 against 2.90 +/- 0.42). Hypokininemia appeared in association with pathological shifts in external respiration and central hemodynamics. It is an unfavourable factor contributing to formation of occupation complications of chronic bronchitis: pulmonary emphysema, pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale.

Adult

[Retrospective analysis of disability indices and assessment of expert testimony of work capacity in dust-induced bronchitis].

The article deals with current issues and quality of the medical labour examinations (MLE) performed by MLE commissions, reveals the reasons accounting for discrepancies in MLE based on the data of the commissions and those of specialized clinics. A clinico-functional examination of 243 in-patient dust bronchitis cases established a late primary diagnosing of dust bronchitis as one of the reasons for invalidism. 3-rd group invalids were mostly workers with lengthy professional background but still before the retirement age, who needed social and labour rehabilitation. The main reason for the discrepancies lies in inadequate examination prior to the MLE commissions decision and prescription of invalidism to the patients with the initial stage of the disease basing on the social criterion.

Adult

[Cardiovascular changes based on ECG data in workers involved in the elimination of the sequelae of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station].

122 persons who had participated in the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster control were passed through ECG examinations, as a result of which susceptibility to bradycardia was revealed. To exclude a marked vagal influence on the myocardium, orthostatic, atropine and ephedrine tests were performed. Weakened reactions to atropine and ephedrine indicated a secondary vagotomy caused by the lowered sensitivity of beta-adrenoreceptors.

Accidents

[Phenomenon of a complete interventricular (interatrial) block].

In 21 cases of separate cardiac cavity excitation (20 of separate ventricular excitation (SVE) and one of separate atrial excitation), 40 right and left QRS complexes were obtained by routine, prolonged and synchronous ECG recording in various standard leads. A differential diagnosis was made between fusion QRS complexes and right and left QRS complexes. Three criteria of fusion ventricular complexes were found to be undiagnostic for right and left ventricular complexes in SVE. SVE has its own electrocardiographic criteria: (1) heterodirectional P waves or QRS complexes separated and unseparated from each other by an isoelectrical interval of less than 0.15 or less than 0.25 s, respectively; (2) in SVE, P-R interval may be no more than 0.06 s shorter than sinus P-R interval; (3) the end vector may be different from or similar to the sinus one. The basis for separate cardiac cavity excitation is functional longitudinal interatrial or interventricular blockade.

Electrocardiography

[Mechanism of the occurrence of ventricular bigeminy].

Twenty-seven patients, aged 15 to 77, with a variety of cardiovascular diseases and bigeminy, and 3 normal subjects were investigated, using exercise and atropin tests. Electrocardiograms were recorded at pre-ectopic intervals of no more than 0.55 sec in bigeminy and polygeminy. The common divisor for interectopic intervals, ectopic complex interpolation, P-Q and Q-T intervals of the main complex and the presence of a wave on the ascending or descending slope of the R wave in sinus QRS complex were determined. Three mechanisms were identified to explain ventricular bigeminy developing during the third phase of action potential and the supernormal myocardial excitation period. A risk group was identified with respect to persistent bigeminy, incorporating patients with the short P-Q syndrome and signs of the typical or atypical Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

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