[Exercise tolerance in patients with exertion angina pectoris after therapeutic plasmapheresis]. / Tolerantnost' k fizicheskoi nagruzke u bol'nykh so stenokardiei napriazheniia posle lechebnogo plazmafereza.

The bicycle ergometric test was used to examine exercise tolerance in 73 patients with coronary heart disease following a single remedial plasmapheresis session, which removed an average of 1562.2 ml plasma. A rapid increase in exercise tolerance was significantly revealed in patients with Functional Class IV exertional angina.