CONTENTS CLINICAL MEDICINE Babliuk L.A. RHEOLOGIC AND KINETIC BILE INDICES IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS AND A CORRECTION OF THEIR DISTURBANCES BY MEANS OF ARTICHOKE-EXTRACT “HEALTH” AND SINGLET-OXYGEN THERAPY ............................................................... 3 Biletskyi S.S., Biletskyi S.V. THE STATE OF VEGETATIVE SUPPLY OF THE CARDIAC ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN THE PROCESS OF TREATING WITH METOPROLOL, CARVEDILOL AND MELATONIN ........................................................... 8 Blazhiievs’ka G.Y., Andrushko I.I. RESEARCH OF AN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLOOD PRESSURE, HEART RATE PARAMETERS WITH THE ANTHROPOMETRIC AND BIOCHEMICAL INDICES IN APPARENTLY HEALTHY URBAN FEMALE ADOLESCENTS AND ADULT PERSONS WITH NORMAL AND REDUCED BODY WEIGHT........................................................................................................................ 12 Voloshyn O.I., Malkovych N.M., Stupnytska A.Y., Bobkovych K.O. AGE-RELATED AND SOMATIC PECULIARTIES OF THE COURSE OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF COMBINED LESION OF THE CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEM .................................. 20 Zelinska N.B. CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS IN HYPOTHYROID PATIENTS ................... 26 Ivashchuk O.I., Myshkovskyi Yu.M., Poliovyi V.P., Bodiaka V.Yu. THE ROLE OF LOCAL FIBRINOLYSIS AND PROTEOLYSIS IN PATIENTS OLDER THAN 60 YEARS WITH ACUTE BLEEDING DUODENAL ULCER, DEPENDING ON THE ULCER TYPE .................................................................................... 31 Kovtunenko O.V. ANALYSIS OF THE BCL-2 ONCOPROTEIN EXPRESSION IN SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE LARYNX ................................................... 36 Malyshevs’kyi I.O. THE DYNAMICS OF THE INDICES OF NITRIC OXIDE AND THE ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR IN THE DUODENAL MUCOUS TUNIC OF ELDERLY AND SENILE PATIENTS, SUFFERING FROM HELICOBACTER NEGATIVE ACUTELY BLEEDING DUODENAL ULCER .................. 42 Ovcharova O.M., Parashcheniuk L.P., Liashenko A.V. A COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE BASIC CLINICO-DEMOGRAPIC PARAMETERS AND AN EVALUATION OF LIFE QUALITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC HEART FAILURE DUE TO DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY AND CORONARY DISEASE ........................................................... 49 Orynchak M.A., Vakaliuk I.I. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF INSULIN AND ALDOSTERONE IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION COMBINED WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME AND POSTINFARCTION CARDIOSCLEROSIS ................................................................... 55 Ortemenka Ye.P. COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CYTOLOGICAL PROFILE OF SPUTUM IN PATIENTS WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA AND HEALTHY SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ........................................................................ 58 Petrynych О.А., Bilets’kyi S.V., Mel’nychuk L.V., Kazantseva T.V. SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF METABOLIC DISORDERS IN PATIENTS WITH ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION AND COMBINED WITH DIABETES MELLITUS OF TYPE 2: A CONNECTION WITH INSULIN RESISTANCE ...................... 61 Piontkovskyi V.K. THE PROSPEKTIVЕ ANALYSIS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LUMBAR OSTEOCHONDROSIS WITH THE APPLICATION OF TRANSPEDICULAR FIXATION ....................................... 66 Prokhorov I.Ye. PATHOGENETIC SUBSTANTIATION AND AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF ANTIINFLAMMATORY THERAPY OF ARTICULATION FORM OF JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS .............................. 70 Prunchak S.I. HYPERSENSITIVITY TO NONBACTERIAL ALLERGENS IN CHILDREN WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA, DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF ACETYLATION ...................................................................................................... 73 Razumnyi R.V. INDICES OF THE CELLULAR COMPONENT OF IMMUNITY IN PATIENTS WITH COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA COMBINED WITH HEPATIC STEATOSIS ................................................................................................. 77 Skrypnyk N.V. A DIAGNOSTIC MANEUVER OF HYPOTHYROIDISM-INDUCED METABOLIC SYNDROME ..................................................................................................... 83 Susla O.B., Mysula I.R., Gozhenko A.I. PECULIARITIES OF VASCULAR-THROMBOCYTIC AND COAGULATIVE HEMOSTASIS IN PATIENTS WITH HEART VALVULAR CALCINOSIS, UNDERGOING CHRONIC HEMODIALYSIS ....................................................................... 89 Todoriko L.D. THE ROLE OF APOPTOSIS OF EPITHELIOCYTES IN THE PROGRESSION OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH HYPOIODOTHYRONINEMIA IN ELDERLY AND SENILE AGE ...................................... 93 Tsygankova T.I. RECEPTOR FUNCTION OF NEUTROPHILIC GRANULOCYTES IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DESEASE ................................................... 97 Cherniuk N.V. THE VALUE OF TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR-β IN THE PROGRESSION OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE COMBINED WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION .............................................. 100 Yaremchuk O.B., Zhukovskyy О.O., Vasil'eva N.V., Bilous I.I. INFLUENCE OF CYTOFLAVIN ON INDEXES OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF PATIENTS WITH DYSCIRCULATORY ENCEPHALOPATHY .............................................................. 103 EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND MORPHOLOGY Isaienko O.Yu. A STUDY OF THE TOXIC PROPERTIES OF B. PERTUSSIS ANTIGENS OBTAINED IN DIFFERENT FREQUENCY ULTROSOUND RANGES ......... 106 Kurovs`ka V.O. THE EFFECT OF NO-DEPENDENT MECHANISMS ON THE INDICES OF THE FIBRINOLYTIC ACTIVITY OF THE HIPPOCAMP UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION OF THE BRAIN ........................................................................................................................ 111 Lenkov A.M. THE STATE OF TISSUE FIBRINOLYSIS AND PROTEOLYSIS IN THE BRAIN CORTEX AND HIPPOCAMPUS UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF BILATERAL CAROTID ISCHEMIA-REPERFUSION IN EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS IN MALE RATS ............................................................................... 115 Rykhlitska K.V., Besedinska O.V., Andrieiev S.A. MORPHOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STATE OF THE MUCOUS TUNIC OF THE LARGE INTESTINE IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASES UNDER THE CONTAMINATION OF A SPREAD ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESION OF THE VESSELS ..................................................................................................... 119 THEORETICAL MEDICINE O.V.Kotsar АNALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM OF ANTIBIOTICO- AND PHAGOTHERAPY OF THE DISEASES COUSED BY OPPORTUNISTIC MICROFLORA ................................................................................... 123 Yu.O.Randiuk, V.D.Moskaliuk RUBELLA: CLINICOEPIDEMIOLOGIC AND IMMUNOPATHOGENETIC CHARACTERISTIC, SPECIFIC FEATURES OF DIAGNOSTICS, TREATMENT AND PROPHYLAXIS ................................................... 128 I.D.Shkrobanets, Yu.M.Nechytaylo, O.V.Makarova SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INFORMATION SUPPORT OF THE LEVEL OF PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN DOCTORS OF THE PEDIATRIC PROFILE IN THE CHERNIVTSI REGION ............................................................................. 134 TRAINING OF HEALTH MANPOWER Pishak V.P., Pashkovsky V.M. THE PRESENT SITUATION AND PROSPECTS OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION AT BUKOVINIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY ............................................................................................................................ 137 METHODS OF INVESTIGATION Buzhdygan V.V., Slobodian O.V., Shaplavs’kyi N.V. TESTING ELECTRODELESS ANALYSIS OF BLOOD VISCOSITY ..................................................................................... 140 CASES FROM PRACTICE Rudkovs’ka O.D. A CASE OF COMPLETE VISION RESTORATION FOLLOWING A MEDICAMENTAL TREATMENT OF HEMOPHTHALMIA ................... 143 JUBILEES ANTROPOV YURII ANDRIIOVYCH (in commemoration of the 80th anniversary) ...................145 CONGRATULATIONS TASHCHUK V.K. IS CONFERRED AN HONORARY TITLE “HONOURED PHYSICIAN OF UKRAINE” .......................................................................... 147