The cardiovascular system during pregnancy undergoes a number of compensatory and adaptive changes, such as an increase in heart rate, cardiac output and total peripheral resistance, which causes an increase in the load on the myocardium. Peripartum cardiomyopathy is a serious polyetiological complication of pregnancy and the postpartum period, as well as an important cause of disability and mortality for both mother and fetus. The non-specificity of complaints and the paucity of clinical symptoms in the early stages of the disease lead to delayed diagnosis and significantly increase the frequency of unfavorable outcomes. In the article we present our own clinical observation of the acute development of severe peripartum cardiomyopathy in a multipregnant woman at 36 weeks of gestation, complicated by cardiogenic shock and antenatal fetal death.

The review article discusses the issues of studying occupational factors on the reproductive health of female flight attendants. The purpose of the study is to identify a correlation between reproductive health disorders of flight attendants and flight factors. Literature data from the Fundamental Library of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov, online sci-hub library «CyberLeninka», e-library and PubMed was analyzed and systematized. Such professional factors as: ionizing radiation, physical stress in flight, work in a plantigrade position, disturbance of the regime of working, resting time and eating patterns, constant change of climatic zones, desynchronosis, – were identified. An analysis of the literature has shown that a number of issues related to flight factors and women's health remain poorly understood. It is advisable to study in detail the flight factors: vibration, noise, acceleration, hypoxia, pressure drops, and their impact on the reproductive system of female specialists working in aviation.

The study investigated the influence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 on the reproductive health indicators of cadets of military educational organizations. In the Department of Assisted Reproductive Technologies at the Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Kirov Military Medical Academy, 183 male cadets aged 2127 years were divided into two groups and examined. The first group consisted of 132 cadets who had mild and moderate COVID-19, and the second group included 51 cadets without COVID-19 in the anamnesis. COVID-19 was found negatively affect the reproductive health of cadets. Individuals who previously had COVID-19 were found to have a significant decrease in the level of total testosterone and decreased concentration and mobility of sperm in the ejaculate. Moreover, in cadets without COVID-19 who were vaccinated with the combined vector vaccine Gam-COVID-Vac, the indicators of the hormonal profile and spermograms were within the reference values. The results indicate the need for further investigation of the effect of various negative factors, including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, on the reproductive health of cadets of military educational organizations. Moreover, the development of preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitation measures will reduce the risk of infertility and reproductive losses, which is consistent with the interests of national projects on healthcare and demography.

One of the most common variants of malignant neoplasms of the female reproductive system is endometrial cancer. At the same time, cases of this disease in patients with genital abnormalities are extremely rare in the general structure of female oncopathology. The article presents clinical cases of endometrioid carcinoma in a 75-year-old woman with doubling of uterus. According to the clinical picture, the results of ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging and histological examination of endometrial scraping, the following diagnosis was made: cancer of the doubled uterus IB (cT1bNxM0) G2 (morphological type — endometrioid carcinoma). The surgery was performed: laparotomy, modified extended extirpation of the uterus with appendages of level B2 with pelvic lymph node dissection C3, omentectomy. The result of postoperative histological examination confirmed the preoperative diagnosis. The postoperative period was uneventful. The presented rare clinical case demonstrates the need to increase clinical suspicion in relation to patients with abnormalities of the uterus structure. Timely diagnosis and verification of the diagnosis will allow to provide adequate treatment, which will affect the prognosis of survival.

Introduction. Preeclampsia (PE) is a specific complication of pregnancy holding a lead place in maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. The development of PE in the maternal body is accompanied by severe hypercoagulation, disturbed anticoagulation and fibrinolytic systems. As a result, vascular microthrombosis in diverse organs with developing endothelial dysfunction, impaired utero-placental blood circulation emerge that leads to adverse perinatal outcomes.Aim: to study status of coagulation arm in pregnant women with moderate and severe PE, after delivery by cesarean section, to optimize management of the postoperative period.Materials and Methods. There were enrolled 50 pregnant women with PE: 16 with moderate and 34 with severe PE after surgical delivery. A status of coagulation arm was examined by evaluating major parameters in coagulogram (fibrinogen, activated partial thromboplastin time, prothrombin, international normalized ratio) as well as assay for early diagnostics of blood clotting disorders to reveal bleeding and thrombosis risks.Results. It was found that prior to surgery patients with severe PE had significantly increased clot growth rate (V) by 1.09-fold (p = 0.001), relative clot density (D) by 1.15-fold (p = 0.001), and time of spontaneous clot appearance (Tsp) was accelerated by 2-fold (p = 0.001) compared to moderate PE. After surgical delivery, patients from both groups had changes evidencing about activated coagulation system: increased V, D, as well as the Tsp. Upon that, all such parameters in patients with severe PE were significantly elevated: the V – by 1.25-fold (p = 0.005); the D – by 1.1-fold (p = 0.02); the Tsp was accelerated by 2-fold (p = 0.03) compared to patients with moderate PE. All parameters in both groups tended to normalize on day 5 after surgical delivery, but patients with severe PE were shown to have significantly increased the V – by 1.5-fold (p = 0.001); the D – by 1.14-fold (p = 0.001); the clot size – by 1.14-fold (p = 0.001); the Tsp – accelerated by 41 % (p = 0.001) compared to patients with moderate PE.Conclusion. Thus, patients with moderate and severe PE after surgical delivery by cesarean section were featured with markedly activated coagulation hemostasis, which may justify a prolonged use of low-molecular-weight heparins in the postoperative period, especially in patients with PE.

It is known that during pregnancy, the hemostatic system, like the rest of the body's systems, undergoes certain changes: there is a gradual increase in the activity of coagulation unit of the hemostasis reaching a maximum before childbirth. However, if pregnancy is complicated by various hypertensive conditions, such as preeclampsia, an imbalance is observed in the hemostasis: against the background of an increase in the activity of coagulation link, depletion of anticoagulation factors and dysfunction of fibrinolytic system are observed. All these changes create a pathogenetic basis for the occurrence of severe thrombohemorrhagic complications that are fatal for both mother and fetus. Thus, the timely detection of these violations is an important task for modern obstetrics. Unfortunately, the applied screening methods for assessing the hemostasis system in practice provide extremely limited information: the tests have low sensitivity to hypercoagulation, as well as moderate to hypocoagulation, they do not allow to fully evaluate the dynamics of coagulation process in real time. In addition, when performing the same tests with reagents of different companies in the same patient, there may be a significant difference in the results. Disadvantages of screening tests became the reason for the search for a test to assess the functioning of the hemostatic system, which can reflect the complete picture of the state of blood coagulation system, and not of its individual links. Such tests are the so-called global tests for assessing the hemostatic system: thrombin generation test, thromboelastography, low-frequency piezothromboelastography and thrombodynamics. Each of the listed global tests has been successfully tested in obstetric and gynecological practice.