[Short courses of iodine-bromine bath therapy and physical exercises for patients with coronary heart disease and concomitant cardiac rhythm disturbance].

The objective of this sanatorium-based study was to evaluate effect of short courses of iodine-bromine bath therapy and veloergometer exercises during 14 days on the working capacity, ventricular and supraventicular extrasystoles, painful and "silent" myocardial ischemia in patients with a combination of coronary heart disease (CHD), stable angina of functional class II, and grade II hypertensive disease (according to the WHO classification). The patients' conditions were monitored by means of spiroveloergometry and Holter ECG recordings. The study included a total of 108 patients. It was shown that short courses of iodine-bromine bath therapy and veloergometer exercises had training and anti-arrhythmic effect on the patients with concurrent coronary heart disease, stable angina, and hypertensive disease. The treatment improved their working capacity, enhanced coronary heart reserve, reduced the frequency of ventricular and supraventicular extrasystoles, decreased manifestations of painful and "silent" myocardial ischemia.

[Effect of superhigh frequency electromagnetic fields and physical exercise on physical performance and extrasystole in myocardial ischemia patients with stable angina pectoris]. / Vliianie élektromagnitnykh polei sverkhvysokoi chastoty i fizicheskikh trenirovok na fizicheskuiu rabotosposobnost' i ékstrasistoliiu u bol'nykh ishemicheskoi bolezn'iu serdtsa so stabil'noi stenokardiei.

AIM: To study impact of UHF electromagnetic fields in combination with bicycle exercise on muscular performance (MP) and extrasystole (ES) in IHD patients with stable angina of functional class 1 and 2 (SA). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The trial included 112 IHD patients with SA and ES. 36 of them were exposed to coursed electromagnetic fields (40 W, on heart area). The other 42 patients received the same treatment and exercised on bicycle ergometer. 34 patients received placebo procedures and did therapeutic exercises. The effect was assessed with spiroveloergometry and ECG Holter ambulatory monitoring. RESULTS: It was found that 40 W UHF electromagnetic fields in combination with exercise on veloergometer exert a training effect in IHD patients with extrasystole manifesting with higher physical performance and coronary heart reserve. The antiarrhythmic effect consisted in a significant daily fall in mean ventricular ES number by 48.2%, supraventricular EX by 54.8%. CONCLUSION: Combined application of 40 W UHF electromagnetic fields on heart area with bicycle exercise is effective in IHD patients with ES.

[Use of nitrogen baths and exercise in the treatment of patients with coronary heart disease complicated by arrhythmia]. / Primenenie azotnykh vann i fizicheskikh trenirovok u bol'nykh koronarnoi bolezn'iu serdtsa s narusheniem serdechnogo ritma.

The study was made of 111 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) who had stable angina pectoris of functional class I and II, extracyctoles. They received artificial nitric baths (n = 44, group 1), artificial nitric baths plus bicycle exercise (n = 37, group 2), fresh water baths (n = 30, group 3). As shown by the results of spiroveloergometry and Holter ECG monitoring, patients of group 1 and 2 benefited more. The average number of ventricular and supraventricular extracyctoles reduced daily by 30.4-36.4 and 59.9-64.2% in group 1 and 2, respectively.