[The clinical picture of ischemic heart disease following a myocardial infarct].

The course of ischemic heart disease was studied in 167 patients who had survived myocardial infarction (MI). The chief factors determining the course of the disease and prognosis after MI are the degree and number of affected coronary arteries, MI localization, functional state of myocardium and early onset of postinfarction stenocardia.

[Left ventricular mass of the myocardium and its contractile capacity in hypertensive patients in the postinfarct period].

Seventy patients with hypertonic disease (HD) in the IInd stage were examined echocardiographically 30 days and 6 months after macrofocal myocardial infarction with the view to study contractility of myocardium of the left ventricle depending on its mass. Increase of the left ventricle mass (LVM) in patients with HD after infarction was established to be associated with rise of myocardial contractility. Fall of the LVM occurs at the account of thinning of ventricular wall without changes in volumic parameters of the left ventricle.

[Anti-anginal effect of long-term use of obsidan, corinfar and finoptin in patients with stable exercise-induced stenocardia].

Time course changes in antianginal effect were evaluated for obsidan, corinfar and finoptin under 12-week administration in 104 patients with stable angina pectoris. The response to finoptin appeared to rise while for obsidan and corinfar it was stable. Some patients with stable angina developed clinical tolerance to corinfar.

[Painless myocardial ischemia in patients with stable stenocardia].

24-hour Holter monitoring was performed in 58 patients with stable angina pectoris. Out of them, 70.7% were recorded to have painless ischemic ST-segment depression episodes which made up some half (45.