New Treatment Possibilities for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Combined with Anxiety and Depressive Disorders

B. Rebrov, S. Kasynets, O. Komarova Lugansk State Medical University Introduction. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) suffer from psychosocial maladaptation due to pain syndrome, limitation of activity with loss of ability to work and social connections. The presence of anxiety-depressive disorders (ADD) increases the incapacity of patients with RA in the first five years of Read More …

Rational Pharmacological Prophylaxis of Gestation Process Complications in Pregnant Women with Varicose Disease

L. Markin, K. Shatylovytch Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. The pathological changes of the venous system in pregnant women and the mothers are manifested in the occurrence of varicose veins of the lower extremities, venous thrombosis and thromboembolism. Varicose veins of the lower extremities are observed in 20.0-40.0% of pregnant women, in more Read More …

Iodine Deficiency Hypothyroidism in Residents of the Prykarpattia Region: Results of the First Phase of the Clinical Examination Using Pyruvate Dehydrogenase and α-ketonuria Tests

Y. Tomashevskyy, R. Makar, O. Safonova, N. Tomashevska, A. Paran’ka Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. According to a WHO study, about 30.0% of the Earth’s population is at an iodine deficiency (ID) risk; about 20 million people are mentally disturbed due to a deficit of iodine in the organism. The research of the Read More …

The Effectiveness of the Treatment of Patients with Benign and Malignant Neoplasms of the Skin with the Ointment “Antineoderm C-A”

L. Abrahamovych, O. Abrahamovych-Stasenko Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. In all countries of the world, in particular in Ukraine, there is a significant increase in the incidence rate of the tumors of the skin, the prevention and treatment of which has a significant medical, social and economic significance. In clinical practice, different methods Read More …

The Influence of Tranexamic Acid on the Postabortion Period Course after Medical Abortion

O. Babenko, T. Bodunova Maxim Gorky Donetsk National Medical University City Clinical Hospital No. 17, Donetsk Introduction. In the last decade, Ukraine followed all the developed countries with a radical change in the approaches to abortion due to medical abortion (MA). It has become a leading component of the safe abortion concept adopted by WHO. Read More …

Pharmacotherapy with Using Vitamins and Minerals of Idiopathic Habitual Miscarriage

L. Markin, H. Kunynets Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. The presence in the history of two spontaneous miscarriages and more in the first trimester is treated as the usual miscarriage of pregnancy. Endocrine factors, genital infections, extragenital diseases play a significant role in the etiology of habitual miscarriage of pregnancy. It is noteworthy Read More …

Myasthenia Gravis and Pregnancy

M. Papish, T. Nehrych Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. The combination of myasthenia gravis (MG) and pregnancy has two important aspects: the reflection of the influence of pregnancy on the course of neurological disease and myasthenia influence on the course of pregnancy. Aim. To determine the optimal tactics of patients with MG during Read More …

Debatable Questions about Bologna Process in Ukrainian Medical Education

S. Nyankovskyy, O. Ivakhnenko, M. Iatsula Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. Today, despite the already significant experience of implementation of the main provisions of the Bologna Declaration in the domestic educational space, many students and faculty of higher educational institutions (universities) quite often express themselves quite ambiguously, due to the lack of integrity, Read More …

Renovascular Hypertension: Diagnosis and Treatment of Renal Artery Stenosis (literature review and description of a clinical case)

O. Radchenko, N. Bek, L. Olenych Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. Recently, the detection of secondary, symptomatic arterial hypertension, which is due to the introduction of more advanced research methods, has become more frequent. The frequency of secondary forms of arterial hypertension is 5.0-25.0 % of the total number of cases of elevated Read More …

Modern View on the Dilated Cardiomyopathy

І. Yuzych Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a chronic disease caused by various conditions which lead to the ventricular dilatation, which decreases their contractile ability of the myocardium. DCM occurs more frequently in men than in women, and is the most common in the age 20-60 years. About one Read More …