[A program for the accelerated activation of myocardial infarct patients and its implementation in the hospitals and sanatoria of Ukraine].

The possibility is shown of reducing the time of hospitalization for 7-12 days in 25% of patients with a history of myocardial infarction. An analysis of health resort rehabilitation of patients according to program of enhanced activation revealed that such rehabilitation program proved effective and showed the possibility of its realization in conditions of practical medicine.

[The effect of acupuncture on the hemodynamics and tolerance for physical loads in patients with cardiovascular diseases].

Discontinuation of chemotherapy substituted for a course of acupuncture and electroacupuncture in 124 patients with coronary heart disease, essential hypertension and neurocirculatory dystonia resulted in a positive response of cerebral and peripheral hemodynamics, myocardial contractility and diastolic function. Myocardial hypertrophy regressed, exercise tolerance enhanced. Reflex activation of stress-limiting systems arresting excess adrenergic action on circulation is probably responsible for these phenomena.

[Cerebro-autonomic correlations in patients with early stages of hypertension during reflexotherapy].

Seventy patients with Stages I and II hypertensive disease underwent electrocardiographic studies of the emotional syndrome and central hemodynamics prior to and following reflexotherapy. Characteristics of the psychovegetative syndrome were identified in the patients. A significant antihypertensive effect and normalized psychological and vegetative parameters observed after reflexotherapy suggest that acupuncture is beneficial in the treatment at early stages of essential hypertension.

Function of myocardial contraction and relaxation in essential hypertension in dynamics of acupuncture therapy.

Forty-nine patients with initial stages of essential hypertension (EH) were investigated using phase systole analysis and echocardiography during acupuncture (reflexotherapy) treatment. It was established that even at the initial stages of EH increasing of myocardial mass and the disturbances of contractile and diastolic activity of myocardium take place. As a result of acupuncture a stable hypotensive effect, improvement or normalization of contractile function and diastolic values, a decrease of energy loss, reversal of myocardial hypertrophy were achieved.