Long-term course of sodium chloride bathes in the rehabilitation of stable angina patients

Abstract

The study is devoted to the effects of artificial baths with sodium chloride, administered for one month per year, 2-3 years in a row, on physical workability, ventricular and supraventricular extrasystolia, pain-manifested and silent myocardial ischemia in coronary heart disease (CHD) out-patients with stable angina. Treatment efficacy was assessed by spiroveloergometry and Hotter ECG monitoring. In total, 100 patients were examined. General sodium chloride baths (one-month course for 2-3 subsequent years) demonstrated training and antiarrhythmic effects in CHD patients with extrasystolia. These beneficial effects were accompanied with improvements in physical workability and coronary heart reserve, ventricular and supraventricular extrasystolia incidence, severity of pain-manifested silent myocardial ischemia.

Keywords

• coronary heart disease
• sodium chloride baths
• physical workability
• extrasystolia
• myocardial ischemia