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Introduction. Intraoperative control of bleeding during surgical treatment of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JAN) remains controversial. There is no consensus as to the routine use of preoperative embolization, given its high cost and inconsistent availability of the procedure in care centers. There were no publications devoted to the comprehensive pharmacoeconomic analysis of preoperative vascular embolization (PVE) occlusion classes on the surgical treatment of JAN by the time of publication Aim. To evaluate pharmacoeconomic value of preoperative vascular embolization (PVE) occlusion classes (non-embolized, incomplete and complete) on the surgical treatment of JAN.Materials and methods. A total of 139 patients who underwent JNA surgical resection in 2013-2021 time period were identified. All of these patients were treated in National Medical Research Center for Children's Hematology, Oncology and Immunology named after Dmitry Rogachev. We evaluated JNA surgical resection outcomes, length of stay (LOS) with prognostic factors using a multiple linear regression (MLR), cost-per-day (CPD), cost-minimization analysis (CMA), cost-utility ratio (CUR), willingness to pay (WTP) with purchasing power parity (PWP).Results and discusion. Surgical transnasal endoscopic treatment of JAN in the quaternary healthcare center, regardless of the degree of embolization and the presence/absence of intraoperative blood transfusion, is at the willingness-to-pay threshold for the healthcare system of the Russian Federation. The most cost-utility method of treatment remains the absence of embolization (within clips placed in the larger diameter vessels). and the absence of blood transfusion, the least cost-utility method is the incomplete embolization, regardless of the presence/absence of blood transfusion.Conclusion. The results of the pharmacoeconomic study emphasize the high significance of the rejection of routine preoperative vascular embolization of JAN and implementation of standard risk-adapted treatment algorithm for indications of preoperative vascular embolization. Which is particularly important for resource allocations and health policy decision making to increase the efficacy and safety of the JNA treatment.

Telehealth is a useful adjunct in hypertension (HTN) management. Despite obvious short-term clinical benefit, long-term social impact and cost-effectiveness have not been fully investigated. Aim. Predictive modeling of long-term clinical and social outcomes and the cost-effectiveness analysis of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring and remote counseling (BPTM) in patients with HTN. Materials and methods. A Markov cohort-based (1000 patients in each study arm) model was developed and adopted a 10-year time horizon with 12-month time cycles. Cost and outcome data collected from the three-month study of 240 patients (160 in BPTM group and 80 controls, 48 y.o.). All patients started at a non-complicated HTN well state with a certain possibility of disease progression in a number of health states over a discrete time period. BPTM was compared with usual care in terms of 10-year healthcare costs, quality adjusted life years (QALY) using a Ministry of Health of Russian Federation perspective. Results. In the long-term run when compared with usual care BPTM was more effective in terms mortality (67 versus 91 patients lost and 9.6 versus 9.71 life years gained) and costs (cost of illness 102 508 000 RUR versus 145 237 700 RUR). Taking quality of life measures into account, the effect of BPTM was also more pronounced (8.31 versus 7.82 QALYs gained). The resultant incremental cost-utility ratio for BPTM was 275 178.98 RUR/1 QALY gained/1 patient (134 837.70 RUR/0.49 QALY/1 patient). Conclusion. According to the results of predictive modeling, implementation of BPTM into clinical practice is likely lead to reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in a cost-effective way.

Introduction. Intraoperative control of bleeding during surgical treatment of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JAN) remains controversial. There is no consensus as to the routine use of preoperative embolization, given its high cost and inconsistent availability of the procedure in care centers. There were no publications devoted to the comprehensive pharmacoeconomic analysis of preoperative vascular embolization (PVE) occlusion classes on the surgical treatment of JAN by the time of publicationAim. To evaluate pharmacoeconomic value of preoperative vascular embolization (PVE) occlusion classes (non-embolized, incomplete and complete) on the surgical treatment of JAN.Materials and methods. A total of 139 patients who underwent JNA surgical resection in 2013–2021 time period were identified. All of these patients were treated in National Medical Research Center for Children’s Hematology, Oncology and Immunology named after Dmitry Rogachev. We evaluated JNA surgical resection outcomes, length of stay (LOS) with prognostic factors using a multiple linear regression (MLR), cost-per-day (CPD), cost-minimization analysis (CMA), cost-utility ratio (CUR), willingness to pay (WTP) with purchasing power parity (PWP).Results and discusion. Surgical transnasal endoscopic treatment of JAN in the quaternary healthcare center, regardless of the degree of embolization and the presence/absence of intraoperative blood transfusion, is at the willingness-to-pay threshold for the healthcare system of the Russian Federation. The most cost-utility method of treatment remains the absence of embolization (within clips placed in the larger diameter vessels). and the absence of blood transfusion, the least cost-utility method is the incomplete embolization, regardless of the presence/absence of blood transfusion.Conclusion. The results of the pharmacoeconomic study emphasize the high significance of the rejection of routine preoperative vascular embolization of JAN and implementation of standard risk-adapted treatment algorithm for indications of preoperative vascular embolization. Which is particularly important for resource allocations and health policy decision making to increase the efficacy and safety of the JNA treatment.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a widespread, severe disease that has outpaced many infectious and non-infectious diseases in terms of both incidence increases and economic burden in most developed countries. In addition to the direct threat to the health and well-being of patients, DM is associated with many severe complications. Among the most significant late complications of DM are diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME) which can lead to slow, persistent vision loss up to blindness. Significant progress in treating DME has been obtained after the role of vascular endothelium growth factor (VEGF) in the disease’s pathophysiology became more understood, with several powerful clinical options emerging as result. Among the anti-VEGF drugs that have proven themselves well in clinical trials and practice with regards to treating DME are ranibizumab and aflibercept. Since there is currently relatively little understanding of their comparative pharmacoeconomic performance within context of Russian healthcare, the current pharmacoeconomic research (PHe) effort was undertaken. Aim. To perform comparative PHe analysis of ranibizumab and aflibercept for treatment of patients with DME in Russian Federation (RF). Methodology. A Markov model with 3 month long cycles, simulating the changes in patient’s vision acuity was designed for this research effort. For each of the compared therapeutic alternative a simulated group of 1000 DME patients was constructed. The PHe analysis was performed from the point of view of Russian healthcare system within context of Mandatory Medical Insurance system and also from point of view of Russian budget as whole. Randomized controlled clinical trials investigating safety and efficacy of analyzed drugs were used as source of efficacy and safety data. Number of patients who avoided stage IV vision loss (blindness) was used as efficacy criterion. Time horizon of PHe analysis was set at 3 years. Costs were accounted based on existing treatment standards, and literature sources were used to link quality of life and vision acuity and then register QALY for various model states. Modelling results were used to carry out cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), cost-utility analysis (CUA) and budget impact analysis (BIA). Two single-factor sensitivity analyses (SA) were used to ensure the results are robust to changes in market situation, and an additional analysis was undertaken to test for effects of choice of eye being treated (better seeing or worse seeing). Results. CEA indicated that ranibizumab administered using Pro Re Nata (PRN) regimen has best cost-efficacy, with lowest CER of 1 264 rub. Ranibizumab administered in Treat and Extend (T&E) regimen and aflibercept had higher CERs and thus inferior cost-efficacy (1 403 rub and 1667 rub respectively). The advantage of ranibizumab PRN extended to CUA, in which CUR was 554 rub for ranibizumab PRN, 616 rub for ranibizumab T&E and 729 rub for aflibercept. BIA performed per 100 000 population (accounted for prevalence of DM and DME epidemiology) has found that use of ranibizumab PRN instead of aflibercept could result in budget burden reduction of more than 17 million rubles per 3 years. All SA have confirmed result robustness. Conclusion. These results indicate that ranibizumab demonstrates favorable pharmacoeconomic properties and its further introduction into Russian clinical practice would allow to increase the efficacy of healthcare resource utilization in the RF.

Objective. Health economic expertise of pramipexole extended release monotherapy at early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Methods. An economic model was developed based on clinical studies to derive comparative information on the effectiveness, utility and direct medical costs of antiparkinsonian treatment strategies over a year period. Cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and budget impact of comparative therapies were assessed. Results. Mirapex® extended release (ER) has the lowest cost-effectiveness ratio (31 499 rub. per a patient a year responded to antiparkinsonian therapy) and the lowest cost-utility ratio (2 562 rub. for decrease of degree of abnormalities of daily activities and motive abnormalities per a point of UPDRS scale). Budget impact analysis demonstrated that pramipexole ER monotherapy resulted in cost saving of 6 499 rub. (20 %) compared to Pronoran®, 26 918 rub. (51%) compared to Requip Modutab® and 24 966 rub. (49%) compared to Azilect® per a year of therapy. Mirapex® ER was the dominant strategy demonstrating higher effectiveness at lower costs in Parkinson’s disease treatment.

Aim. To assess the pharmacoeconomic feasibility of including lenvatinib in the list of vital and essential drugs (VED) and the state program for providing to the necessary drugs to treat patients with differentiated radioiodine-resistant thyroid cancer. Materials and methods. The design of the study is a retrospective analysis of the literature data. Methods of pharmacoeconomic analysis - cost analysis, budget impact analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis. Results. The replacement of sorafenib with lenvatinib when included in the VED list and the state program for providing the necessary medicines for the treatment of patients with differentiated radioiodine-resistant thyroid cancer will reduce the burden on the program budget. At the size of the target group of 100 people for 3 years, the savings will amount to 43.95 million rubles. The total reduction in the load on the budget will be 11.8%. The results obtained are resistant to an increase in the price of lenvatinib by 19.0% and a decrease in the price of sorafenib by 52%. The average cost of therapy for 1 patient with differentiated radioiodine-resistant thyroid cancer for 1 year with the use of lenvatinib in the first line is 36.0% lower than with sorafenib. The savings for 1 year is 334 911 rubles on the patient. In terms of «cost-effectiveness», the drug lenvatinib dominates sorafenib. The CER value per patient for the year using lenvatinib is 48.7% lower than with sorafenib. Conclusion. From the pharmacoeconomic point of view, the use of lenvatinib in the first line of therapy of radioiodide-differentiated thyroid cancer is preferred in comparison with the use of sorafenib. The inclusion of lenvatinib in the list of vital and essential drugs and the state program for providing the necessary drugs is pharmacoeconomically feasible.

Diabetic polyneuropathy (DP) occupies the third place among the most common neurological disorders, affecting a significant portion of diabetes patients, and is characterized by progressive lesions of nervous fibers. While normalizing carbohydrate metabolism is crucial for treating DP, metabolic compounds that integrate into nervous tissue metabolism have received considerable attention. Despite their therapeutic attractiveness and significant spread in clinical practice, the amount of data pertaining to pharmacoeconomic properties of these compounds remains limited. Given significance of this problem and due to availability of new clinical data on comparative effectiveness of two of such drugs, a research effort was undertaken to evaluate the pharmacoeconomic properties of Cocarnit combination drug compared to Milgamma drug, as well as with components of Cocarnit purchased separately. Aim. To evaluate comparative pharmacoeconomic performance of therapy using Cocarnit combination drug, Milgamma, and Cocarnit components purchased and administered separately in the context of Russian healthcare. Methodology. Current analysis was performed from perspective of Russian state healthcare system within context of mandatory medial insurance system. Modelling horizon was 3 years. Randomized clinical trial directly comparing the safety and efficacy of investigated drugs (Cocarnit and Milgamma) as well as long-term randomized clinical trials of other metabolic drugs for treatment of diabetic neuropath and general dynamic of diabetic neuropathy response to metabolic treatment were used as data sources for this PHe. The number of patients in each simulated group was 1000 people. A Markov model was constructed to assess the costs and utility effects of treating diabetic neuropathy with comparator compounds, with simulated treatment protocols being based on existing Russian standards of diabetic neuropathy treatment. The model accounted for existing data regarding long-term outcomes and recurrence rates of diabetic neuropathy undergoing metabolic treatment. Model did not account for mortality resulting from diabetes proper and treatment costs associated with addressing the underlying primary condition (Type I and Type II diabetes). The cycle length was 1 week. QALY improvements were used as surrogate endpoints, since the existing clinical trial data indicates that the only significant difference between the drugs being compared is their quality of life effects. Since clinical trial data contained only SF-36 quality of life data, a widely used mapping algorithm found in peer-reviewed literature was utilized to convert from SF-36 to EQ-5D in order to properly evaluate QALY differences. Upon completion of modelling, the following types of analysis were performed: cost minimization analysis (CMA) for “Cocarnit/Cocarnit components purchased separately” comparator pair (CMA was used here since utility, efficacy and safety values for this case will be strictly equal), budget impact analysis (BIA) for “Cocarnit / Cocarnit components purchased separately” comparator pair, Cost-utility analysis for “Cocarnit / Milgamma” pair. Sensitivity analysis was used to verify the robustness of the results. Discounting was performed at rate of 5%. Results. Cocarnit has demonstrated promising results, showing superiority over separately purchased and administered components in CMA (with CMA factor of -2 752 082 rubles) and budget impact analysis, which indicated that use of Cocarnit instead of separate metabolite components would result in reduction of budget burden totaling 1 458 603 per 100 000 of Russian Federation population (accounting for prevalence of diabetic neuropathy) within 3 years. During cost-utility analysis it was found that Cocarnit is superior to Milgamma demonstrating greater overall quality of life and a CUR of 552,34 rubles (while Milgamma has a less favorable CUR of 555,41 rubles) per patient. It also had ICUR of 208,88 rubles per patient, indicating a low cost per one QALY gained and high pharmacoeconomic expediency within context of pharmacoeconomic expediency analysis. Sensitivity analysis has shown that results remain robust to price increases up to 25%. Conclusion. These results demonstrate that Cocarnit has favorable pharmacoeconomic characteristics and indicates high expediency of using it in Russian healthcare system, and allows us to recommend further research into clinical and pharmacoeconomic properties of this drug.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a widespread, severe disease that has outpaced many infectious and non-infectious diseases in terms of both incidence increases and economic burden in most developed countries. In addition to the direct threat to the health and well-being of patients, DM is associated with many severe complications. Among the most significant late complications of DM are diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME) which can lead to slow, persistent vision loss up to blindness. Significant progress in treating DME has been obtained after the role of vascular endothelium growth factor (VEGF) in the disease’s pathophysiology became more understood, with several powerful clinical options emerging as result. Among the anti-VEGF drugs that have proven themselves well in clinical trials and practice with regards to treating DME are ranibizumab and aflibercept. Since there is currently relatively little understanding of their comparative pharmacoeconomic performance within context of Russian healthcare, the current pharmacoeconomic research (PHe) effort was undertaken. Aim. To perform comparative PHe analysis of ranibizumab and aflibercept for treatment of patients with DME in Russian Federation (RF). Methodology. A Markov model with 3 month long cycles, simulating the changes in patient’s vision acuity was designed for this research effort. For each of the compared therapeutic alternative a simulated group of 1000 DME patients was constructed. The PHe analysis was performed from the point of view of Russian healthcare system within context of Mandatory Medical Insurance system and also from point of view of Russian budget as whole. Randomized controlled clinical trials investigating safety and efficacy of analyzed drugs were used as source of efficacy and safety data. Number of patients who avoided stage IV vision loss (blindness) was used as efficacy criterion. Time horizon of PHe analysis was set at 3 years. Costs were accounted based on existing treatment standards, and literature sources were used to link quality of life and vision acuity and then register QALY for various model states. Modelling results were used to carry out cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), cost-utility analysis (CUA) and budget impact analysis (BIA). Two single-factor sensitivity analyses (SA) were used to ensure the results are robust to changes in market situation, and an additional analysis was undertaken to test for effects of choice of eye being treated (better seeing or worse seeing). Results. CEA indicated that ranibizumab administered using Pro Re Nata (PRN) regimen has best cost-efficacy, with lowest CER of 1 264 rub. Ranibizumab administered in Treat and Extend (T&E) regimen and aflibercept had higher CERs and thus inferior cost-efficacy (1 403 rub and 1667 rub respectively). The advantage of ranibizumab PRN extended to CUA, in which CUR was 554 rub for ranibizumab PRN, 616 rub for ranibizumab T&E and 729 rub for aflibercept. BIA performed per 100 000 population (accounted for prevalence of DM and DME epidemiology) has found that use of ranibizumab PRN instead of aflibercept could result in budget burden reduction of more than 17 million rubles per 3 years. All SA have confirmed result robustness. Conclusion. These results indicate that ranibizumab demonstrates favorable pharmacoeconomic properties and its further introduction into Russian clinical practice would allow to increase the efficacy of healthcare resource utilization in the RF.

Pl-VEGF165 (Neovasculgen) is a new genotherapeutic drug for treatment of chronic lower limb ischemia. It is registered in Russia and underwent effectiveness assessment in clinical trial. Objective of this study is to report results of the economical modeling study to compare long-term effectiveness and costs of the treatment. The comparison show that the treatment with this drug allows to decrease number of amputations by 6.5 fold and increase quality adjusted length of life by 2.6 QALYs. Summary costs were lower with new drug by 574 thousand rubles with lifelong modeling and by 353 thousand rubles in first 5 years.

In accordance with currently accepted recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), both monotherapy with long-acting anticholinergics (LAAC) or combined therapy (LAAC / long-acting beta-agonists, LABA) can be used. To justify a rational choice between these two medications, we used the methodology of clinical/economic analysis.Objective: to assess possible financial and clinical/economic consequences of replacing monotherapy based on LAAC (tiotropium bromide) by the fixed combination of LAAC / LABA (vilantererol / umeclidinum bromide) in patients with severe and extremely severe COPD.Materials and methods. The target population included patients with severe and extremely severe COPD (FEV1

Objective. Determine if dapagliflozin use is pharmacoeconomically reasonable option for patients with inadequate glycemic control compared with basal insulin.Materials and Methods. The study was conducted according to standard pharmacoeconomic methods: cost-utility analysis (CUA), budget impact analysis (BIA).Results. The use of dapagliflozin as an alternative to basal insulin can reduce health system costs, improves the quality of life of patients, adding 0.73 QALY per patient. Modelling suggests that dapagliflozin introduction could delay the start of insulin treatment by an average of 6.5 years that in turn will allow achieving cost savings and improving the quality of life of patients.Conclusions. Dapagliflozin therapy is the preferred alternative to basal insulins, due to lower costs and improvement in the quality of life of patients.

Orphan drugs are used for treatment of rare life-threatening diseases. There is no universal definition of a rare disease and no universal approach to orphan drugs legislation. As a result, decision-making in this field requires results of pharmacoeconomic analysis, which structure and interpretation need a specific approach due to high costs of the drugs and limited sample size. Cost-utility analysis, risk management, and international rare diseases patient registries could be used to solve these problems.

Annually, all over the world there are 300 000 new patients with leukemia (approximately 3% of all oncology diseases), and mortality due to leukemia is 220 000 patients. Pharmacoeconomic evaluation of this pathology contributes to the improvement of approaches to treatment policy of this group of patients. We performed cost-effectiveness analysis on the basis of two tyrosine kinase inhibitors in Russian Federation – nilotinib (Tasigna) and imatinib (Gleevec) in CML in the chronic phase (CP) treatment as firstline therapy. Treatment with Tasigna compared with Gleevec characterizes as dominant according to used 1-year time horizons.

a total of 62 patients with a diagnosis of low back pain. Low back pain patients were randomized of two group. Patients of the first (main) group received a course of intraosseous blockades, while patients of the second (control group) received a course of conservatively treatment (analgetics, NSAIDs, myorelaxants, physical therapy). Measured direct costs at 1-year follow-up. Quality of life was measured with the Oswestry low back pain disability questionnaire, converted into utilities and transformed into quality-adjusted life years - QALY. The analysis will be performed for the health systems. Mean QALY in the first group was 0,358 and 0,134 in the second group.The cost-utility ratio for first group was 39 090,5 RUB for 1 QALY, and for standard therapy it was 179 552,2 RUB for 1 QALY. Treatment by intraosseous blockades is dominant alternative.

pharmacoeconomic cost-utility analysis – CUA is at third place by popularity (10% of studies) among studies of pharmacoeconomic analysis. Main stages of these trials are as follows: cost analysis, utility analysis and results assessment. Each of these stages may have impact on theend data reliability. The results of analysisis CUR coefficient (ICUR), reflecting cost value on utility unit. Correct assessment of analysis results may increase effectiveness of health care budget allocationand reveal more effective and appropriate treatment alternatives. All stages of cost-utility analysis and decision making algorithm are presented in the article.

Abstract: pharmacoeconomic study of treatment primary open-angle glaucoma with fix combination of carbonic anhydrise inhibitors and betablockers by mean of cost-utility, willingness-to-pay, cost minimization and budget impact analysis was conducted. Results have shown, that Azarga has benefits compare with Kosopt and combination of Azopt and timolol from cost-minimization and budget impact analysis perspective and can be claimed dominant. Futhermore Azarga in comparison with Dorzopt plus is cost-effective drug, because of Azarga incremental cost-utility ratio is lower than willingness-to-pay threshold value for Russia.

Telehealth is a useful adjunct in hypertension (HTN) management. Despite obvious short-term clinical benefit, long-term social impact and cost-effectiveness have not been fully investigated., Aim: Predictive modeling of long-term clinical and social outcomes and the cost-effectiveness analysis of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring and remote counseling (BPTM) in patients with HTN., Materials and Methods: A Markov cohort-based (1000 patients in each study arm) model was developed and adopted a 10-year time horizon with 12-month time cycles. Cost and outcome data collected from the three-month study of 240 patients (160 in BPTM group and 80 controls, 48 y.o.). All patients started at a non-complicated HTN well state with a certain possibility of disease progression in a number of health states over a discrete time period. BPTM was compared with usual care in terms of 10-year healthcare costs, quality adjusted life years (QALY) using a Ministry of Health of Russian Federation perspective., Results: In the long-term run when compared with usual care BPTM was more effective in terms mortality (67 versus 91 patients lost and 9.6 versus 9.71 life years gained) and costs (cost of illness 102 508 000 RUR versus 145 237 700 RUR). Taking quality of life measures into account, the effect of BPTM was also more pronounced (8.31 versus 7.82 QALYs gained). The resultant incremental cost-utility ratio for BPTM was 275 178.98 RUR/1 QALY gained/1 patient (134 837.70 RUR/0.49 QALY/1 patient)., Conclusion: According to the results of predictive modeling, implementation of BPTM into clinical practice is likely lead to reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in a cost-effective way.

The paper summarizes the literature and author's data on the development of early (preclinical) diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD). Implementation of this diagnosis will promote the use of preventive therapy and change investments in diagnosis and treatment of patients. The paper declares that at present the only approach to early diagnosis of PD is positron-emission tomography of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system, but it cannot be used for preventive examination due to its high cost. The authors consider that a less specific, but more promising approach to the development of early diagnosis of PD is the search for markers in body fluids, mainly in the blood, in patients at the prodromal stage of PD. Indeed, a number of markers as changes in the level of metabolites of monoamines, sphingolipids, urates, and indicators of oxidative stress were found in patients selected for the risk group of the prodromal stage of PD, according to characteristic premotor symptoms. In addition, it is assumed that the search for blood markers at an earlier - pre-prodromal stage is possible only in animal models of PD at the early preclinical stage. This approach can also be used to verify blood markers identified in patients at the clinical stage of PD. It is also evident that the complex socio-economic factors influencing the incidence of PD is different in developed versus developing countries. The societal and medical costs of Parkinson's are huge and efforts to improve early preclinical diagnosis of PD will lead to considerable economical and societal benefits. For instance this will allow efficient selection of patients for preclinical diagnostic tests. To assess the effectiveness of this strategy considering the uncertainty of socio-economic issues, a modification of the «cost-utility» analysis is proposed. For the first time, a Markov model of PD including preclinical diagnostic tests and possible neuroprotective therapy was developed and studied. Analytical outcomes of this process suggest that the idea of developing a new multimodal strategy is promising from a socio-economic point of view.

Use of highly concentrated ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids after myocardial infarction (MI) and in patients with heart failure was associated with lower mortality. The goal of this analysis was to perform cost-utility analysis of the use of highly concentrated ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids after MI (with help of a Markov model) and to find whether its use in some group of patients led to decrease in budget costs. As a result, we have shown that use of highly concentrated ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids after MI leads to increase in quality-adjusted life expectancy on 0.5 QALY, with incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of 105 thousand rubles per QALY, and net monetary benefit of 780.5 thousand rubles. In the patient subpopulation that receives highly concentrated ethyl esters of polyunsaturated fatty acids for arrhythmia prevention after coronary artery bypass the estimated decrease of budget cost varies between 6 and 50% depending on denominator used.