Professor N.L. Volodos and his contribution to development of the global surgery. To his 85-th anniversary

V.I. Troyan, A.S. Snurnikov, A.V. Chinilin1, prof. V.A. Prasol1 1Kharkov Institute for General and Urgent Surgery named after V. T. Zaitcev, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Institute of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine, Kharkiv, Ukraine. This work is a tribute to Professor N.L. Volodos, whose pioneering works and inventions have changed world’s surgical landscape. His contribution to development of the…

Contribution of hypertension to the formation of endpoints of diseases of the circulatory system according to population studies

Prof. E.Ya. Nikolenko Kharkiv National University named after V.N. Karazin Circulatory system diseases occupy the first place in the mortality structure in Ukraine (63,7%), the endpoints generally accepted in clinical and epidemiological studies in most cases are formed due to CAD and its risk factors. The paper presents approaches to assessing the contribution of arterial…

Podilsky doctors ‘society — one of the first scientific medical societies on the territory of Ukraine.

B.V. Tkach Health Department of Khmelnytskyi City Council, NGO “Stepan Rudanskiy Medical Club”, Khmelnytskyi The article reviews and analyzes the processes of formation and activity of the Podolsky Physicians Society in the second half of the 19th – beginning of the 20th centuries. as one of the first medicinal societies in the territory of modern…

To the 200-th anniversary of the publication of R. Laennec’s book «On mediate auscultation or recognition of lung and heart diseases, based mainly on the new research method»

Prof. K.K. Vasyliev Odessa National Medical University In 1816, the French physician René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) discovered a method of mediate auscultation. For three years he conducted research. In 1819, he summarized his observations on mediate auscultation in the book published in French. After that, the method began to spread throughout the world. In the Russian…

The role of endothelin-1 and melatonin in the mechanisms of the comorbid course of gastroesophageal reflux disease and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Prof. A.G. Oparin, M.A. Murghuzov Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education As revealed in studies in young patients with GERD, there is a statistically significant decrease in the level of melatonin metabolite (6-COM) and a statistically significant increase in the content of endothelin-1 compared with a group of healthy individuals of the same age and…

Family doctor’s tactics for biliary tract diseases (diagnostic criteria)

Ass.prof. K.V. Vovk, ass.prof. O.V. Sokruto, ass.prof. O.G. Reznichenko, ass.prof. S.V. Gridneva, M.V. Martynenko. Kharkiv National University bу V.N. Karazin. Volumes of work of the family doctor include diagnostics, treatment, multifactorial prevention of diseases of internal organs, which do not require treatment in the hospital. Diseases of the biliary system are one of the leading…

Issues and problems in diagnosis and treatment of iron-deficiencyanemia of pregnant women

As. prof. S.V. Ivanchenko, V.O. Aralova Kharkiv National Medical University The article discusses the reasons, the main pathogenetic mechanisms and features of iron deficiency anemia course in pregnant women. Diagnostic and differential diagnostic approaches for diagnosis are presented. The necessity for a complex clinical and laboratory examination of patients in this category is emphasized, which…

The role and place of ghrelin in the pathology of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract

A.A. Kudryavtsev Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education To date, diseases of the digestive system remain one of the most pressing problems of modern medicine. Much attention is paid to the biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying the development of these pathologies. In recent years, new hormones and neurotransmitters have been discovered that regulate energy metabolism…

Assessment of fetuin-A in patients with comorbidity of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and arterial hypertension

Ass.prof. К.О. Prosolenko Kharkiv National Medical University The aim of our study was to investigate serum fetuin A levels in patients with NAFLD and its comorbidity with essential hypertension or renoparenchymal hypertension, as well as to evaluate the association of this indicator with the major pathogenetic factors of these diseases. All patients were divided into…

Arachnoiditis of the brain

Ass.prof. V.A. Florikian, ass.prof. O.P. Zavalna, ass.prof. O.L. Tondiy, I.V.Moroz Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education Kharkiv Clinical Hospital №1 On The Railways Of The Branch “Health Center Ohorany” Public Joint Stock Company “Ukrainian Railways” Brain arachnoiditis is the important and modern problem of clinical neurology. Literature about this pathology is not much. At the…

Characteristics of motor-secretory disorders in patients with ischemicheart disease with concomitant gastroesophageal reflux disease

As.prof. A.S Vnukova Kharkiv medical academy of postgraduate education The goal of the study was to examine the characteristics of motor-secretory disorders in patients with ischemicheart disease (IHD) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The present study was conducted with a total of 110 patients. The first group included 66 patients with IHD and concomitant GERD….

The founder of the Kharkov scientific obstetric school Ivan Pavlovich Lazarevich (to the 190-th birthday anniversary)

Zh.M. Pertseva Kharkiv National Medical University The article is devoted to the activity of a well-known domestic obstetrician and gynecologist, inventor of obstetrical instruments, head of the Department of obstetrics, female and children diseases of the Faculty of Medicine of Kharkiv University. Key words: obstetrics, gynecology, clinic, diagnostics. https://dx.doi.org/10.15407/internalmed2019.02.069 Download.PDF For citing: Перцева, Ж.М. Родоначальник…

Diagnosis and treatment of stable coronary heart disease in the practice of a family doctor

Prof. O.M. Korzh Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education Among atherosclerosis-related cardiovascular diseases, chronic ischemic heart disease (CHD), in particular angina, is the most common form. Coronary heart disease is a myocardial lesion that develops as a result of animbalance between the coronary circulation and the metabolic needs of the heart muscle. At present, there…

The medicine of Kievan Rus and dual faith

Prof. О.A. Oparin Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education The work shows that the dual faith system, which was an artificial combination of pagan dogmas, beliefs and rites with Christian teachings, led to a combination of pagan and Christian ideas about the disease, as a result of which there was basically no room for doctors…

Еrosive and non-erosive forms of gastroesophageal reflux disease

Prof. T.D. Zvyagintseva , as.prof. Ya.K. Gamanenko  Kharkiv Academy of Postgraduate Medicine The article deals with the issues of modern understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of GERD-associated inflammation of the esophagus mucosa involves complex and multifactorial immune-mediated effects of re-action of gastric reflux contents with varying pH values. Until recently, the…

Analysis of depression level among HIV infected in dependence on the presence of deviant behavior

Prof. Spirina I.D., аs.prof. Hnenna O.M. State institution «Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine», Ukraine, Dnipro According to a survey of 114 HIV infected patients, depressive disorders were found to be the most frequent nonpsychotic mental disorder that occurs in people with HIV / AIDS. The frequency of anxiety and depressive…

Role of depression in medical practice

Prof. V.E. Goncharov, prof. V.M. Kozidubova, prof. S.M. Doluda, ass.prof. E.N. Barycheva, ass.prof. A.V. Gurnickiy Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education The material presented allows us to understand the extent of the problem of depressive disorders. The features of complaints and the course of the disease are described that allow the doctor to identify it…

Systemic diseases of the connective tissue. Systemic lupus erythematosus: prevalence, etiopathogenesis, serological diagnosis

Prof. L.M. Pasiyeshvili, prof. N.M. Zheleznyakova Kharkov National Medical University The paper considers the general issues of systemic diseases of the connective tissue, the classification of diseases. Systemic lupus erythematosus is considered as an example of such a disease: issues of etiology, pathogenesis, serological diagnosis. Characterization of research methods and assessment of their sensitivity are…

The potential role of kallistatin as a new biomarker in non-invasivediagnostics of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with hypertension

Prof. O.Ya. Babak, prof. N.M. Zhelezniakova, as.prof. A.O. Rozhdestvenska Kharkiv National Medical University It is known that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is recognized as one of the most common diseases in the 21st century. A variant of the comorbidity is the combination of NAFLD with the hypertension (HT) increasing the risks of non-alcoholic steatosis…