[Characteristics of rehabilitation of physical work capacity in patients with prior myocardial infarct depending on baseline tolerance of exercise test].

The restorative features of physical working capacity (PWC) in relation to baseline exercise (E) tolerance were examined in 223 males aged 30-58 years who had sustained large myocardial infarction. The results indicated that there was a positive dynamics of PWC parameters in the patients who had an initial threshold exercise intensity (TEI) of 25-50 W, the greatest increase in these parameters occurring within three months of the disease. The patients who had a TEI of 75 W or more virtually showed unaltered PWC during a 12-month follow-up.

[The effect of climatic treatment in the central highlands on the lipid, cortisol, renin and aldosterone content of the blood in patients with an acute myocardial infarct].

124 capable men who had survived large focal myocardial infarction underwent a 24-day course of treatment in a cardiological sanatorium situated in climatic conditions of low mountains (1600 m above the sea level). It was found that posthospital rehabilitation under conditions of low-mountain climate promoted antiatherogenic shifts in blood lipoproteins composition most distinct in patients with hyperlipidemias. Hydrocortisone and renin levels returned to normal values, physical performance rose.

[The initial results of the sanatorium rehabilitation of patients having had an acute myocardial infarct in a mid-alpine climate].

Short-term results of rehabilitation of 1046 CHD patients at a cardiological sanatorium in mountains at average altitude (1600 m above the sea level) were studied. Large focal myocardial infarction (MI) was found in 738 of them, small focal MI in 249, and acute focal myocardial dystrophy of ischemic genesis in 59. Of 1046 patients considerable improvement of the status after rehabilitation therapy at the sanatorium was noted in 27.