[The influence of carbon dioxide baths differing in the total mineralization levels on the functional state of the cardiovascular system of the patients presenting with hypertensive disease associated with coronary heart disease].

The results of the study on the influence of carbon dioxide baths differing in the total mineralization levels on the clinical course of hypertensive disease associated with coronary heart disease and on various functional systems of the body. The data obtained provide an insight into the role of salt concentrations (10 and 20 g/l) in carbon dioxide bath water (1.2 g/l) applied for the traditional treatment of the patients with hypertensive disease associated with concomitant coronary heart disease and musculoskeletal pathology. Highly mineralized bath water has a greater influence on the functional state of the cardiovascular system by causing a more pronounced decrease in peripheral vascular resistance and hypotensive effect. Baths with a salt concentration of 20 g/l markedly reduced pain and had anti-inflammatory effect in the patients with pathology of support and locomotor organs.

[Spa-based water procedures and complications in the course of their performance].

The scope of applications of spa-based water procedures have become considerably extended during the recent years; accordingly, the frequency of complications and accidents has increased. The present review considers the possible mechanisms underlying such complications and various factors promoting their development, such as the patients' age and chronic diseases, the use of pharmaceutical products affecting thermoregulation and cardiovascular function. Special attention is given to the influence of alcohol consumption on the frequency of complications, accidents, and sudden death associated with hyperthermal procedures, the possibility of infectious diseases and measures necessary for their prevention.

[Effect of peloid applications of different temperatures on the function of the cardiovascular system in patients with osteoarthrosis and concomitant hypertensive disease and ischemic heart disease].

This study investigated changes of systemic and intracardiac hemodynamics under effect of mud application at different temparatures (10, 20-24, and 36 degrees C) in patients with osteoarthrosis and concomitant hypertensive disease and coronary heart disease. It is concluded that combined treatment of this condition should include low-temperature peloidotherapy as a major component since it has the most beneficial effect on general and intracardiac hemodynamics.

[Nondrug methods for the rehabilitation of participants in the cleanup of the aftermath of accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station who have neurocirculatory dystonia and hypertension]. / Nemedikamentoznye metody reabilitatsii uchastnikov likvidatsii posledstvii avarii na Chernobyl'skoi AES s neirotsirkuliatornoi distoniei i gipertonicheskoi bolezn'iu.

Among cardiovascular diseases registered in the Chernobyl wreckers neurocirculatory dystonia and hypertension occur most frequently. Combined treatment including electric sleep, iodinebromine baths, therapeutic exercise, massage relieves clinical symptoms, promotes positive rearrangement of hemodynamics, a decrease in myocardial hyperkinesis and vegetative dysfunction, an increase in cardiovascular reserves, correction of hypersympathicotonia and immune disorders.

[Submerged hydromassage as a method for the rehabilitation of myocardial infarct patients at the polyclinic stage]. / Podvodnyi gidromassazh kak metod reabilitatsii bol'nykh infarktom miokarda na poliklinicheskom étape.

The studies in postmyocardial infarction patients have shown that underwater massage is an effective method of conditioning of the above patients in outpatient setting. Its positive action on cardiovascular system has improved clinical condition of 70% of those treated. Episodes of angina pectoris disappeared or became less frequent, the pains attenuated, exercise tolerance enhanced. 66.7% of the patients retained the effect for 6 months, 53.3% for 12 months. The results obtained allowed the authors to recommend underwater massage as an effective rehabilitation method for early and late management of postmyocardial infarction outpatients.

[The blood antioxidant system in patients with ischemic heart disease undergoing laser therapy]. / Sostoianie antioksidantnoi sistemy krovi bol'nykh ishemicheskoi bolezn'iu serdtsa pri lazeroterapii.

Catalyse activity and lipid peroxidation were studied in the sera of patients with coronary heart disease who had been exposed to red and infrared low-energy laser radiation (LLR) applied to the skin projections of the heart and its reflexogenic areas. It was found that the optimal normalizing effect occurred with the red band of LLR applied in the rehabilitative period to patients with prior myocardial infarction concurrent with hypertensive disease and stable angina of functional classes I and II. In functional class III stable angina, infrared LLR had advantages over the red on when they acted on the blood antioxidative system.