[SCLEROSIS: LOCAL AND GENERAL PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT]

Sclerosis is a final substrate and outcome of structural lesions of different organs and tissues in various pathological conditions, such as hypertensive disease, coronaty heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic scleroderma, etc. Not infrequently it as a determinant of severity and unfavourable outcome of the disease. Elucidation of general patterns of the development of sclerosis requires an integrated approach to the systemic analysis of clinical, genetic, biochemical, and morphological characteristics whereas a local analysis reveals peculiarities of formation of sclerosis in individual patients. Such combination permits to use methods of predictive-preventive personified medicine for planning the treatment of sclerosis.