Renoprotective Properties of the Low-Dose Antihypertensive Combination Treatment of Patients with Hypertension Combined with Chronic Pyelonephritis

N. Seredyuk, O. Luchko Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University Introduction. According to the current recommendations of the European Society of Hypertension and the European Society of Cardiology, treatment for arterial hypertension (AH) consists not only of the direct reduction of blood pressure to the target values, but also in observance of the principle of organoprotection as Read More …

Pruritus and the Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Stage VD Treated by Hemodialysis

O. Abrahamovych1, I. Dudar2, K. Abrahamovych1 1Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University 2Department of Efferent Technologies, GA “Institute of Nephrology, NAMS of Ukraine” Introduction. The problem of the quality of life of patients with the chronic kidney disease stage VD treated by hemodialysis is becoming more and more urgent in medicine. One of the most Read More …

Myocardial Hibernation in Patients with Arterial Hypertension and Ischemic Heart Disease as a Cause of Heart Failure

O. Barnett, Y. Kyyak, H. Kyyak, V. Kovalyshyn, D. Besh Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. Myocardial hibernation refers to “new ischemic syndromes,” which in recent years have increasingly attracted the attention of cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. Hibernation includes a number of adaptive responses: inhibition of metabolic processes to more complex and lengthy pathophysiological Read More …

Somatotypological Characteristics of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Dependence on the Age of the Patient, Age, when the Disease began and its Duration

M. Styhar, M. Stanislavchuk National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya Introduction. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a multifactorial autoimmune disease, the occurrence of which affects a lot of factors, especially genetic, endocrine and environmental (socio-economic). A promising approach to assessing the genetic predisposition to multiple diseases is the study of somatotypologic status of patients. There are Read More …

Functional State of the Thyroid Gland in Patients with Urticaria

T. Rudnyk, O. Nadashkevіch, B. Parashchuk, Y. Zaychenko Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. It is known that in 15.0-20.0% of the world’s population there is at least one episode of urticaria throughout the life, and therefore it belongs to the group of dermatoses of a social nature. Significant prevalence, absence of unified diagnostic Read More …

Micro- and submicrostructural Changes of Anterior Abdominal Wall Tissues as a Choice Factor of Hernioplasty for the Treatment of Ventral Postoperative Hernias

V. Andryushchenko, Y. Bisyarin, M. Kushnirchuk Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. Postoperative ventral hernias form one of the most relevant sections of modern herniology, since their prevalence in the overall structure of the anterior abdominal wall hernias tends to increase, and the results of the surgical treatment are not always optimal. In the Read More …

Treatment of the Liver Cirrhosis: Modern Principles, Considering Syntropic Co- and Multimorbid Lesions of other Organs and Systems of Organs

M. Abrahamovych, M. Farmaha Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. Cirrhosis of the liver is a frequent chronic polyethyologic disease of the internal organs with polymorphous syntropic lesions, which often causes early disability and death of patients – that is why it is necessary to improve the principles of complex differentiated treatment taking into Read More …

Aarskog – Scott Syndrome: a Literature Review and Presentation of Clinical Case

L. Markin, O. Medvyedyeva Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. The syndrome of Aarskog – Scott is a disease inherited from an auto-dominant or X-linked recessive type characterized by facial features, genitourinary anomalies, and disproportionately low growth. Aim. To make an overview of current literature on etiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnostic principles and treatment Read More …

Syntropic Heart Disorders in Patients with Lyme Borreliosis (Clinical and Electrocardiographic Characteristics Presentation of Case Report)

О. Zinchuk Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. Lyme borreliosis (LB) is a polysystemic infectious disease caused by a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted through the suction of ixodic ticks. In the last decade, the incidence of LB in Ukraine has risen steadily; it is officially classified as a group of particularly dangerous infectious Read More …

Labyrinthopathies (Vestibulopathies) in Practice of a Therapeutist

Ol. Om. Kitsera, Оl. Оl. Kitsera Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University Introduction. In 1861, Prosper Meniere for the first time proved that the cause of dizziness, nystagmus, and vertigo disorders may be the disease of the anterior part of labyrinth. Today, illness with such symptoms belongs to labyrinthopathies, that is, non-malignant diseases of the Read More …