Cardiac hemodynamics in patients with ischemic heart disease combined with chronic cholecystitis

: Cardiac haemodynamics have been studied radiocardiographically in 56 men at the age of 40-60 including 15 healthy persons, 24 patients with chronic coronary disease and 17 patients associating coronary disease with chronic cholecystitis. This association was shown to reduce minute heart volume thus playing the role of a factor compromising cardiac blood circulation in such patients. Neuroreflex influence on the coronary arteries and autoimmune damage of myocardium due to similarity of myocardial and gallbladder antigenic determinants may be probable mechanisms of such an effect.