R.A. BASHIROV¹, I.Yu. KHAYRUTDINOVA², A.F. YUSUPOVA^1,2, S.A. LAPSHINA², E.V. SUKHORUKOVA¹, D.I. ABDULGANIEVA^1,2

 ¹ Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Tatarstan, 138 Orenburgskiy trakt, Kazan, Russian Federation, 420064

² Kazan State Medical University, 49 Butlerova Str., Kazan, Russian Federation, 420012

Bashirov R.A. — Radiologist of the Division of Radiology, tel. (843) 231-21-14, e-mail: rkbrad@mail.ru

Khayrutdinova I.Yu. — Resident Physician of the Department of Hospital Therapy, e-mail: irishka.nout@gmail.com

Yusupova A.F. — PhD (medicine), Associate Professor, Head of the course of radiation diagnostics of the Department of Oncology, Radiation Diagnostics and Radiation Therapy, e-mail: a.f.yusupova@mail.ru

Lapshina S.A. — PhD (medicine), Associate Professor of the Department of Hospital Therapy, tel. (843) 237-32-61, e-mail: svetlanalapshina@mail.ru

Sukhorukova E.V. — Rheumatologist of the Division of Rheumatology, tel. (843) 231-21-67, e-mail: s-elena1407@mail.ru

Abdulganieva D.I. — D. Sc. (medicine), Head of the Department of Hospital Therapy, tel. (843) 237-32-61, e-mail: diana_s@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7069-2725

The article presents the results of the esophagus function study by means of dynamic scintigraphy in patients with definite diagnosis of systemic scleroderma (SS) and anamnesis duration from less than 1 year to 7 years. The control group included 10 healthy volunteers. The study consisted of rapid collection of images after the voluntary act of swallowing, their visual analysis and plotting the activity/time curves for each patient. During evaluation of the results, two main types of disorders of the esophagus transport function were revealed in patients with SS: hyperdynamic and hypodynamic. Hyperdynamic type of disorders was detected in 5 patients with early SS, hypodynamic type, on the contrary, in patients with a longer disease history. Thus, further study of the relation between clinical variants of the course of SS and changes in scintigraphy is required.

Key words: systemic scleroderma, esophageal scintigraphy.

(For citation: Bashirov R.A., Khayrutdinova I.Yu., Yusupova A.F., Lapshina S.A., Sukhorukova E.V., Abdulganieva D.I. Early diagnosis of esophageal affection in patients with systemic scleroderma. Practical Medicine. 2018)

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