The prognosis of work capacity in patients with rheumatic defects after heart operations

: A study of rheumatic patients after operations on the heart indicates that working capacity prognosis is determined not only by the severity of the somatic state but also by social and psychological aspects. The authors revealed sociopsychological and clinical prerequisites of high and low working adaptation that allow to make a concrete working prognosis and establish rehabilitation programs for the individual rheumatic patients undergoing heart surgery.