[The clinico-functional status of patients with unstable stenocardia (based on Holter electrocardiographic monitoring data)]. / Kliniko-funktsional'nyi stan khvorykh na nestabil'nu stenokardiiu (za danymy kholterivs'koho elektrokardiohrafichnoho monitorynhu).

As many as 50 patients presenting with unstable angina were examined for clinicofunctional status, using bicycle ergometry [correction of veloergometry], transesophageal electrocardiostimulation and 24-hour Holter ECG monitoring during 1-yr follow-up. The results of exercise tests at enrollment into the study suggested a dramatic decrement in the patients' exercise tolerance, as to Holter, with the painless myocardial ischemia tending to be more common among them than the painful one. A follow-up study a year later showed the course of the illness to be most variable among those cases presenting with unstable angina. A correction of their management being warranted, the latter was then tailored to the individual on the basis of findings from a comprehensive evaluation of each of them at the original admission to a hospital.