The assessment of the work capacity of myocardial infarct patients rehabilitated in the hospital under an accelerated program

: Results are submitted of long-term follow-up of patients with macrofocal myocardial infarction who had been rehabilitated in an in-patient setting by the accelerated programme and resumed their work 2.5 months following the onset of the illness. The above patients were evaluated for exercise tolerance, indices of intracardiac hemodynamics, parameters characterizing the rheology-hemostasis system, those of immune reactivity and lipid spectrum. Comparative evaluation of results of rehabilitative treatment in the above patients and reference group did not reveal differences over the long-term follow-up, which fact may become a prerequsite for reconsideration of the temporary disability periods in these patients with cutting down those periods on the average by two weeks.