Research Objective: To compare the features of personal response in young patients with minor heart anomalies according to gender and severity of abnormalities. Materials and Methods: Physiological characteristics of 124 male and female (mean age — 22,16±2,42 years) have been examined by means of Toronto Alexithymic scale, reduced multifactorial questionnaire for the study of personality and psychogeometric test. Results: It has been found that both women and men with moderate degree of minor heart anomalies manifest polar intrapsychic tendencies, higher levels of alexithymia than in those with a lesser degree of dysplasia of the connective tissue of the heart. Conclusion: Patients with moderate degree of minor heart anomalies have experienced the conflicting intrapsychic tendencies and higher levels of alexithymia than patients with minor heart anomalies of a minimal degree, regardless of the gender. Male patients with varying degrees of severity are more likely to suffer from alexithymia than females
Kurako М.М., Kirichuk V.F., Kodochigova A.I., Papshitskaya N.Y., Olenko E.S., Sulkovskaya L.S. Psychophysiological features of male and female young patients with minor heart anomalies depending on degree of their intensity // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2012, pp. 209-213

The aim of investigation is to study heart hemodynamics in teenagers with connective tissue dysplasia of heart (CTDH). 35 patients ages 12 to 15 years with CTDH have been observed: Group I (n=14) are the patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) without mitral regurgitation (MR) and myxomatous degeneration(MD) or isolated minor heart abnormalities (MHA), Group II (n=11)are patients with MVP and MR in combination with 1 or2 MHA, and Group III (n=10) are patients with MVP and mixoid degeneration (MD) in combination with 2 or more MHA. The control group consisted of 15 patients of the same age without MHA. All the children passed Doppler and echocardiography. According to the results significant changes of cardiohemodynamic indices in patients of Group I were not observed. The changes of size and volume indices of the left ventricle (LV), increase in wall thickness and diastolic dysfunction of the LV were observed in Group II. The significant changes of systolic function of left ventricular myocardium were observed in Group III. The study comes to the conclusion that teenagers with CTDH have definite changes of heart hemodynamics and functional state of left ventricular myocardium. These changes depend on mitral regurgitation, myxomatous degeneration and MHA combination
Makhmudova F.M. Peculiarities of cardiac hemodynamics and functional state of left ventricular myocardium in teenagers with connective heart tissue dysplasia // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2011, pp. 119-123