Аннотация:Abstract. The paper is devoted to the study of digital capillaroscopy potentialities in the
assessment of oedema syndrome by the example of a group of patients with diseases of
cardiovascular system (CVS). 75 patients were examined, 47 of them with CVS diseases
and 28 healthy volunteers. Alongside with the standard examination customary for this
pathology, the capillaroscopy of hand finger nail bed was carried out in all patients. The
study has revealed considerable dilation of transitional segments of capillaries, increase
of the capillary bed remodelling coefficient and the linear dimension of perivascular
zone in patients with clinically expressed oedema syndrome. In the group of patients
with CVS diseases without clinically expressed oedema, we revealed the statistically
significant increase of perivascular zones and remodelling coefficient of capillary bed.
The digital optical capillaroscopy can be applied in the clinical practice for early
diagnostics of the hidden oedema syndrome and as a quantitative method of diagnostics
for clinically expressed oedema and assessment