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M V Eremeeva

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Use of human VEGF(165) gene for therapeutic angiogenesis in coronary patients: first results.

The paper presents the first results of therapeutic angiogenesis in clinical cardiosurgery: human VEGF(165) gene transplantation to coronary patients. The use of this therapeutic method is particularly effective in patients with inoperable cardiovascular injuries, i.e. patients with the most severe condition, in whom treatment remains little effective at the modern level of cardiosurgery development.

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[New approaches to the treatment of ischemic heart disease: therapeutic angiogenesis in combination with surgical revascularization of the myocardium].

AIM: To evaluate the results of surgical treatment of patients with ischemic heart disease in combination with intraoperative intramyocardial introduction of the human gene VEGF165 (angiostimulin). MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty four patients enrolled in the study were examined using 12-lead ECG, echocardiography, treadmill exercise test, single-photon emission computed tomography of the myocardium with Tc-99m-tetrophosmine, fluorodesoxyglucose (FDG) positron-emission tomography of the myocardium, selective coronarography. Out of 24 patients, 10 patients have been reexamined so far. The effect of the treatment was assessed by the data obtained at the treadmill test, transthoracic echocardiography, myocardial scintigraphy and FDG. RESULTS: All the patients demonstrated a clinical response. The class of effort angina improved, the dose of the prescribed nitric drugs was decreased, exercise tolerance and total stress time rose, quality of life improved. Myocardial scintigraphy registered reduction of the total area and better accumulation of the radiopharmaceutical under load and at rest 3 and 6 months after the operation including myocardial areas which had not been revacularised at coronary artery bypass grafting but had been treated with the preparation of the human gene VEGF165. CONCLUSION: The results of the study suggest that therapeutic angiogenesis may be an alternative impact on those myocardial areas which are supplied by the affected but ineligible for bypass grafting coronary arteries.

Collateral Circulation↗

[Cryoglobulinemia and fibronectin in systemic lupus erythematosus].

EIA was used to measure the concentration of fibronectin in plasma and cryoprecipitates of 37 patients suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus coupled with cryoglobulinemia. A definite relationship was discovered between the level of cryoglobulins and the activity of SLE, the concentration of fibronectin in plasma and liver damage. A tendency was revealed towards increase of the fibronectin content in plasma of patients with a high level of antibodies to native DNA and CIC as was a significant correlation between the concentration of cryoglobulin protein and the concentration of fibronectin in cryoprecipitates.

Adolescent↗

[Use of solid-phase Clq-ELISA for detecting circulating immune complexes in human diseases].

The authors provide the results of studying the methodologic characteristics and of the clinical trial of the C1q-ELISA for detection of the circulating immune complexes. The C1q-ELISA is shown to have a high sensitivity and to make it possible to identify 3 micrograms/ml and more of aggregated gamma-globulin. The method can use for detection of CIC E (ab')2-fragments of antibodies to IgG of man and protein A labeled with peroxidase. Using the method, the circulating immune complexes were identified in the sera of 50% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, of 30% of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and of 53% of patients with nonspecific aortoarteritis. It is concluded that the C1q-ELISA can be used in clinical practice for detecting the circulating immune complexes in different diseases of man.

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[The immune system in coronary atherosclerosis].

A considerable imbalance in humoral and cellular factors of immunity characterized by high B-cell activity associated with a relative T-cell deficiency has been revealed in patients with coronary heart disease. Immunological imbalance is characteristic for all the clinically pronounced forms of coronary heart disease, forming long before obvious lesions of the coronary arteries. This makes it possible to regard patients without coronarographically documented atherosclerosis as having functional form of the process pathogenetically identical to atherosclerosis according to immunological criteria.

Adult↗

[Circulating immune complexes and apolipoproteins in ischemic heart disease].

Levels of circulating immune complexes (CIC) and apolipoproteins (apo-A and apo-B) were compared and correlated with the severity of atherosclerotic affection of heart vessels in coronary patients with coronarographically-verified coronary arterial atherosclerosis. An inverse correlation between blood CIC and apo-A levels, and a direct correlation between the CIC level and the apo-B/apo-A index were demonstrated. The variation of CIC levels in patients with atherosclerotic lesions of varying severity corresponded to that of the apo-B/apo-A index. The correlation of these parameters was particularly significant in coronary patients with 2 coronary vessels affected.

Adult↗

[Use of coagglutination for serotyping Shigella dysenteriae and Shigella boydii].

The coagglutination test was used to identify Shigella boydii and Shigella dysenteriae. A trial was carried out with 13 native rabbit antisera to S. boydii and 10 antisera to S. dysenteriae, as well as with coagglutinating reagents prepared from these antisera. The use of coagglutinating reagents was shown to ensure the complete specificity of the results, to prevent the adsorption of diagnostic antisera and to decrease their consumption 50 times. The importance of the coagglutination test for the identification of shigellae is discussed.

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[Clinico-immunological characteristics of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and cryoglobulinemia].

Sixty patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) were examined: 40 patients with cryoglobulinemia and 20 patients without it. Cryoglobulinemia was observed in patients with SLE, as a rule, in the acute course of the disease ending in renal affection. Cryoglobulinemia in SLE was accompanied by the phenomenon of generalized vasculitis in the form of skin and mucosa lesions with ulcero-necrotic changes and affections of the central and peripheral nervous system and the kidneys. The clinical picture of SLE accompanied by cryoglobulinemia was characterized by a polysyndrome phenomenon and infrequent presence of the ARA criteria. Cryoglobulinemia was accompanied by high titres of anti-DNA. Thus, cryoglobulinemia can be regarded as one of the important factors of immunocomplex damage in SLE.

Adolescent↗