[Evaluation of the efficacy of isosorbide-5-mononitrate in CHF patients unresponsive to isosorbide dinitrate therapy].

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antianginal and antiischemic effects of isosorbide-5-mononitrate (Mono Mack) in patents unresponsive to its therapy. Thirty eight patients aged 38 to 70 years who had coronary heart disease (CHD) were followed up. Estimation of the number of daily anginal episodes, 24-hour monitoring, EchoCG, bicycle ergometry, tetrapolar rheocardiography, and self-assessment were made.

[Elements of yoga therapy in the combined rehabilitation of myocardial infarct patients in the functional recovery period].

Fifty-nine postmyocardial infarction patients received combined therapy involving chemotherapy, physiotherapy, therapeutic exercises and yoga therapy. Thirty-seven controls received the same treatment without yoga exercise. The yoga complex implied elementary simple positions, relaxation exercise and respiratory exercise.

[Ergospirometry in the diagnosis of disorders of the oxygen transport system in patients with chronic bronchitis].

Ergospirometry was used to carry out a study with the increasing exercise in 56 patients with chronic bronchitis and 46 healthy subjects. The limit physical potentialities, qualitative and quantitative characteristics of ventilation, hemodynamics, gas exchange at the height of the exercise were compared. It has been established that in the early disease stages, there was a tendency to hyperventilation during exercise in response to the deterioration of bronchial patency, which was accompanied by significant deterioration of the efficacy of ventilation with respect to the level of gas exchange attained.

[The clinical masks of foreign bodies in the bronchi].

Three cases of foreign bodies in the bronchi, aspiration of which has gone unnoticed for the patients, are considered. In view of great diagnostic difficulties of related inflammation in atelectasis-affected sites of the lungs encountered in such cases, the study of the disease history and bronchological examination seem essential and should be detailed and comprehensive. This is especially true in torpid and atypical course of pneumonia, signs of aspiration and bronchial obstruction.

[Status of microcirculation in patients with ischemic heart disease and concomitant bronchopulmonary diseases].

Microcirculation was studied by bulbar biomicroscopy in 111 coronary patients (105 males and 6 females) treated at sanatorium. Eighty-three of them exhibited concomitant bronchopulmonary impairment: chronic obstructive, chronic nonobstructive bronchitis and bronchial asthma in 40, 36 and 7 patients, respectively. The combined effect of the diseases leading to mutual aggravation has an adverse sequelae in terminal circulation, which can be managed by therapeutic impact on cardiorespiratory system.