[The assessment of the status of the cardiovascular system in people who were victims as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station (based on ultrasonic diagnostic data)].

A lack of compliance has been disclosed of left ventricular parameters and those parameters characterizing myocardial contractility with age-scale norms in a major proportion of cases in a series of 229 patients presenting with different abnormalities of the internals who had become victims of the Chernobyl accident, as per echocardiographic examination. By comparison with other groups of nosological entities the most pronounced changes were seen in those patients presenting with cardiovascular disorders, their degree being dependent upon the functional class in ischemic heart disease and stage of hypertensive disease. The ejection fraction approaching the norm under changed volumes of left ventricular cavity suggests some bodily compensatory potential.