Doctor's alphabet

Rational approach to lipid-lowering therapy

March 06, 2017
The material presents the key principles of rational lipid-lowering therapy along with the results of some key clinical studies devoted to the study of the efficacy of atorvastatin.

Anticoagulants in patients after knee transplantation

02 February 2017
The material contains data from key clinical studies on the efficacy and safety of new oral anticoagulants in patients after knee transplantation.

Chronic hepatitis C, newly diagnosed

January 10, 2017
The material presents a range of key diagnostic studies for newly diagnosed chronic hepatitis C, as well as the main antiviral therapy regimens.

Secondary prophylaxis of acute coronary syndrome

December 28, 2016
The material presents key recommendations on drug therapy in the context of secondary prevention of acute coronary syndrome.

Conservative therapy for hemorrhoids

December 9, 2016
The material describes the clinical classification of hemorrhoids, the algorithm of treatment by stages and the principles of conservative therapy of this disease.

Antihypertensive therapy. The right combination

November 20, 2016
Clinical studies have shown that with arterial hypertension, monotherapy can only achieve a successful outcome in a very limited number of cases. Much more often the doctor faces the need to combine several antihypertensive drugs in one patient. Given the variety of classes of these drugs, choosing the right combination is a difficult clinical task. This material covers

Chronic hepatitis C

October 28, 2016
Chronic hepatitis C is a global epidemiological problem. Nearly 200 million people worldwide are carriers of the virus. This disease is one of the key causes of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In this hepatitis C up to the very decompensation can occur without any symptoms, so clinicians call it "a gentle killer." Fortunately, in the last few years, antiviral

Psoriatic arthritis

October 12, 2016
Psoriatic arthritis is an inflammatory disease of joints from the group of seronegative arthropathies. The disease can accompany psoriasis or manifest itself in isolation. The material presents the features of the clinical picture, diagnosis and treatment of this disease.

Premenstrual syndrome

October 05, 2016
Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is a condition characterized by the presence of physical and / or emotional symptoms that occur within 1-2 weeks before the onset of menstruation. With this syndrome, one in three women experiences one degree or another throughout their lives, which is why a doctor of any specialty should have a representation of the ICP.

Hyperactivity of the bladder

September 26, 2016
Hyperactivity of the bladder is an extremely common pathology in the practice of a urologist and gynecologist. This condition grossly violates the patient's quality of life. In the past, this syndrome with great difficulty was amenable to correction, but today new clinical methods of treating hyperactive bladder, both pharmacological and surgical, are introduced into clinical practice.

Threatening abortion

September 20, 2016
Threatening abortion is one of the most important causes of uterine bleeding in the first trimester of pregnancy. Causes, diagnostic materials and tactics of treating this condition.

Arterial hypertension

August 23, 2016
The main goal of treating a patient with arterial hypertension (AH) is to maximally reduce the overall risk of cardiovascular complications. This implies exposure to all identified reversible risk factors (FF), such as smoking, high cholesterol and, most importantly, appropriate treatment of concomitant diseases (diabetes mellitus), as well as correction of high blood pressure (BP).

Stroke

August 23, 2016
Stroke is one of the most frequent diseases that lead to disability and death of patients.In Russia, 450,000 strokes are diagnosed every year. Stroke can occur at any age (even in children), although it is more common in older age groups. The frequency of stroke is the third after myocardial infarction and oncological diseases.

Pregnancy

August 23, 2016
Pregnancy is not a painful, but a natural, physiological state of the body. However, during pregnancy, women can make certain complaints, which in another situation can be taken as a manifestation of the disease. In themselves, such conditions are not dangerous either for the pregnant or for the normal development of her fetus and do not lead to any complications, while the discomfort she experiences is sometimes substantially

Obesity

August 22, 2016
Obesity is a disease. Like any illness, it should be treated, especially since doctors in their practice often meet with mixed pathology, when a patient with a BMI has a combination of two, three or more diseases. This may be MS (metabolic syndrome). Such a complex of metabolic disorders (BMI, hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, tolerance to carbohydrates, cholelithiasis, uric acid diathesis, gout and others in