[Aortocoronary shunting in the early period after myocardial infarction].

Fourteen patients aged 34-54 years underwent aortocoronary bypass surgery for early postinfarction angina within 30 days following myocardial infarction. In periods up to 1.5 years after surgery, angina pectoris was not detected in the patients; cases of recurrent myocardial infarction were not registered.

[Intraoperative echocardiography].

Combined echocardiography (uni- and two-dimensional, and Doppler) was used during surgery on an open heart. Technological aspects of such examinations are discussed. A method for tricuspid valve annuloplasty is suggested, monitored and regulated by echocardiography on an open heart.