[Changes in the interrelation between oxygen consumption and blood circulation in patients with stage II hypertension].

It was discovered that patients suffering from essential hypertension (EH) of the hypokinetic circulatory type (the cardiac index less than 2.7 1/min/m2) manifest an elevated level of energy metabolism which is mediated by the increased arteriovenous difference according to oxygen, accompanied by an increase in oxygen utilization ratio. In patients, the total peripheral resistance was higher as compared to that in normal subjects (P less than 0.

[Indications for surgical treatment in ischemic heart disease and its results].

Of the 210 patients who underwent direct coronary surgery for stable and unstable angina pectoris and acute myocardial ischemia, 187 were followed up after the operation for 11 months on the average. Operative mortality was 11%. Among the 187 patients, 46.