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Continuous stage-wise rehabilitation was used in 102 patients who survived acute macrofocal myocardial infarction that was of a transmural type in nearly 60% of them. While hospitalized in a clinic, the patients underwent a 5-week physical activization course. Depending on the severity of the lesion the average duration of their hospitalization ranged from 34.2 to 43.1 days. Seventy patients (68.8%) were referred to the local cardiological sanatorium directly from the hospital. Subsequently all these patients were followed-up (up to 2 1/2 years) and treated on an out-patient basis in the cardiological service of the clinic. Among 88 patients who had worked before infarction, 72 persons (81.8%) returned to their professional activities after 4.9 months, on the average, following the development of myocardial infarction. Professional rehabilitation proved more effective in those who had received the sanatorium treatment after hospital, 87.1% of them returning to their jobs, and nearly 1 month sooner than those who had had no sanatorium treatment. Among the main clinical and instrumental methods of control of the state of myocardial infarction cases during the rehabilitation period the test with portioned physical exercises was also used. The examinations were repeated in 80 patients, in 50 of them -- on the 30th--35th day of the disease. The obtained data indicate that the threshold tolerance of the patients increases due to the stage-wise rehabilitation measures. |
