[Prognostic value of thallium scintigraphy in diagnostic problem cases].

Quantitative myocardial scintigraphy was performed in 40 patients with a medium prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD), i.e. in cases with diagnostic difficulties.

[Ventricular septal defect as a complication of myocardial infarct].

Between 1978 and 1982 emergency closure of postinfarction ventricular septal defect was performed in 4 patients (51--74 years) on the 3rd-7th day after acute myocardial infarction. All patients had a large left-to-right shunt and were in intractable acute heart failure; all of them survived the operation (3 patients had additional aortocoronary bypass grafts), and follow-up (0.5--4.