[Ambulatory/partial inpatient phase II rehabilitation of heart patients in a Rhine-Main district rehabilitation clinic].

According to the guidelines and standards for a comprehensive phase II rehabilitation a new outpatient/part-time outpatient program was developed and started at an existing rehabilitation center in January 1997. All patients of the new program were included in a follow-up study and compared with patients of the same center, who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the outpatient mode, but wanted to perform their rehabilitation in the full-time residential mode. Both groups were examined before, at the end and 6 months after the program.

MR T2 relaxation time for the assessment of retrobulbar inflammation in Graves' ophthalmopathy.

The results of 39 patients with severe Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO), who were monitored by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and tonography before and after combined immunosuppressive treatment with cyclosporine and corticosteroids, are presented. A correlation was found between the decrease in T2 relaxation time of the superior, medial, and inferior rectus muscle (p < 0.01) and the response to the immunosuppressive treatment.

[Computer-assisted ECG evaluation in polyclinic patients].

Computer-aided reading of 12-lead scalar ECGs was performed in 2.883 out-patients with a tracing- and processing-system of IBM, Periphere Computer Systeme and Schwarzer using the Bonner analysis-program version 2. After analog-to-digital conversion and storage on a floppy disk the ECG data were transferred by telephone to an IBM-computer at Munich.