ABSTRACT
The authors have developed a technique of abdominal cryomassage and tried it in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). The massage improved the disease course, diastolic function, being most effective in hypertrophic left ventricular myocardial affection; produced lipotropic action important for early secondary prevention. Thus, abdominal cryomassage as a nonpharmaceutical method can serve an efficient adjuvant modality in combined treatment and rehabilitation of CHD patients.
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Cryotherapy/methods , Massage/methods , Myocardial Ischemia/rehabilitation , Adult , Aged , Angina Pectoris/diagnosis , Angina Pectoris/rehabilitation , Chronic Disease , Echocardiography , Electrocardiography , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Myocardial Ischemia/diagnosisSubject(s)
Hypertension/drug therapy , Adult , Antihypertensive Agents/therapeutic use , Blood Pressure/drug effects , Cardiomegaly/drug therapy , Cardiomegaly/physiopathology , Drug Evaluation , Drug Therapy, Combination , Echocardiography , Female , Humans , Hypertension/physiopathology , Male , Middle Aged , Time FactorsSubject(s)
Angina Pectoris/complications , Coronary Disease/complications , Heart Failure/etiology , Hypertension/complications , Adult , Aged , Angina Pectoris/diagnosis , Angina Pectoris/physiopathology , Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/complications , Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/diagnosis , Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/physiopathology , Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/complications , Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/diagnosis , Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/physiopathology , Chronic Disease , Coronary Disease/diagnosis , Coronary Disease/physiopathology , Diagnosis, Differential , Echocardiography , Heart/physiopathology , Heart Failure/diagnosis , Heart Failure/physiopathology , Hemodynamics , Humans , Hypertension/diagnosis , Hypertension/physiopathology , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Echocardiography and immunological tests were applied to follow and examine 100 patients with grave non-coronarogenic myocardial lesions. Of these, 14 patients had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (CMP) of the obstructive type, 21 hypertrophic non-obstructive CMP (symmetrical, apical, septal), 15 congestive CMP, 34 nonspecific myocarditis, and 16 alcoholic lesion of the heart. Congestive CMP, nonspecific myocarditis, and alcoholic lesion of the heart were characterized by some symptoms in common: dilatation of heart chambers, heart insufficiency, arrhythmias, thromboembolism. Myocarditis can be diagnosed according to the common and laboratory signs of inflammation, appearance of inflammatory pathology in other organs, changes in the immunological characteristics (reduction in the leukocyte migration index under the effect of cardiomyocyte membrane antigen), therapteutic effect of steroidal therapy. Alcoholic lesion of the heart can be recognized on case history specification (including the questioning of the subjects having relations with the patient), and identification of other symptoms of alcoholism. The possibility of making differential diagnosis of the diseases under consideration has been demonstrated.
