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 “St. Michael’s Clinical Hospital of Kyiv”

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

• All-Ukrainian Center for Motherhood and Childhood of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine

At the clinical bases of the Department of Internal Medicine No. 2, medical and consultative work is carried out. At St. Michael’s Clinical Hospital in Kyiv, the staff of the department constantly carry out medical and diagnostic work in the departments of acute coronary conditions, rehabilitation for patients with myocardial infarction, resuscitation and intensive care for cardiac patients, rheumatological, cardiology and consultative and diagnostic clinics. On the basis of the National Military Medical Clinical Center of the Main Military Clinical Hospital, medical and diagnostic testing is carried out in the therapeutic clinic. The department takes an active part in the consultative and therapeutic work of the polyclinic of the University Clinic of the Bogomolets National Medical University.

The main areas of work of the Department of Internal Medicine No. 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

Methods of examination and treatment used at the Department of Internal Medicine No. 2:

• Noninvasive measurement of central hemodynamics by aplanation tonometry in patients with chronic coronary syndromes and osteoporosis
• Modern determination of markers of bone remodeling and indicators of bone mineral density in patients with chronic coronary syndromes and osteoporosis
• Modern laboratory diagnostics of hypercalciuria in degenerative bone diseases, in particular, osteoporosis
• Use of a therapeutic algorithm for the treatment of hypercalciuria
• The Use of Stress Tests for the Diagnosis of Stable Coronary Heart Disease
• Application of immunological research methods for 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
• Application of ultrasound examination of joints and soft tissues in the diagnosis of joint lesions and differential diagnosis of joint syndrome
• Magnetic resonance imaging: diagnosis of pathology of the spine and peripheral joints in adult patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

At the Department of Internal Medicine No. 2, the following is studied:

• Determination of the effect of immunobiological therapy in patients with seronegative spondyloarthritis on bone mineral density
• Determination of the relationship between bone mineral density and vascular wall stiffness
• Effects of different 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