Department of Internal Medicine №2

MEDICAL AND ADVISORY WORK

Responsible for medical work – associate professor, Ph.D. Zaitseva O.E.

Clinical bases of the department:

• KNP “Alexander Clinical Hospital of Kyiv”

• National Military Medical Clinical Center “Main Military Clinical Hospital”.

• Institute of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine

At the clinical bases of the Department of Internal Medicine No. 2, medical and advisory work is carried out, KNP “Alexander Clinical Hospital in Kyiv” employees of the department constantly carry out medical and diagnostic work in resuscitation, heart attack, rheumatology, cardiology and other departments. On the basis of the National Military Medical Clinical Center “Main Military Clinical Hospital” consultative and medical work is carried out in gastroenterological, pulmonological and cardiological clinics.

The main areas of work of the Department of Internal Medicine № 2:

• Treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction
• Treatment of patients with chronic coronary syndrome
• Immunobiological therapy of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis
• Determination of bone mineral density and muscle mass in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis.
• Treatment of cardiovascular, nephrological complications and consequences of COVID 19 infection

Examination and treatment methods used at the Department of Internal Medicine № 2:

• Non-invasive measurement of central hemodynamics by aplanation tonometry in patients with chronic coronary syndromes and osteoporosis
• Modern determination of bone remodeling markers and indicators of bone mineral density in patients with chronic coronary syndromes and osteoporosis
• Modern laboratory diagnostics of hypercalciuria in degenerative diseases of bone tissue, in particular osteoporosis.
• The use of a therapeutic algorithm for the treatment of hypercalciuria
• Using loading tests to diagnose stable coronary artery disease
• The use of immunological research methods for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of systemic connective tissue diseases, rheumatoid arthritis
• The use of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of joint damage
• The use of ultrasound examination of joints and soft tissues in the diagnosis of joint damage and differential diagnosis of articular syndrome
• Magnetic resonance imaging: diagnosis of pathology of the spine and peripheral joints in adult patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

The Department of Internal Medicine № 2 is studying:

• Determining the effect of immunobiological therapy in patients with seronegative spondyloarthritis on bone mineral density
• Determining the relationship between bone mineral density and vascular wall stiffness
• The effect of various combinations of drug therapy on the course of cardiovascular and nephrological complications in patients with COVID 19 infection
• Study of sarcopenia in adult patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Study of the effect of immunobiological therapy on the development of sarcopenia in adult patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis