[Detection of angina pectoris in a 5-year follow-up of patients with initially diagnosed cardialgia].

During a 5-year follow-up of 150 patients with initially diagnosed cardialgia, the diagnosis of angina pectoris was revised more frequently in those followed up by therapeutists (46%), significantly more infrequently in those seen by outpatient cardiologists (18%) and much more infrequently in those examined by hospital cardiologists (6%). Risk factors for coronary heart disease were detected 2-4 times more frequently in patients with angina pectoris than in those with preserved cardialgia.

[Serial echocardiographic studies of the function of the left ventricle in acute myocardial infarct].

The results of serial echocardiographic examination of 51 patients with primary myocardial infarction are discussed. Echocardiography was performed on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th, and 20th days of the disease and before discharge. Thirty patients had infarct of the anterior wall and 21 of the posterior wall.