Effect of treatment with cardiac glycosides and biologically active substances on the state of the lesser circulation according to the electrokymographic data
Masliuk, V.I.; Polosova, T.A.; Neporent, M.I.; Abbakumov, S.A.; Shatikhin, A.I.
Kardiologiia 17(9): 42-46
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-9040 PMID: 926599 Document Number: 113849
Electrokymography was used to assess by pulmonary densograms and pulmonary artery pulse curves treatment-induced changes in cardiac contractility and lesser circulation in 455 patients with rheumatic heart disease and stage IIA, IIB, and III circulatory insufficiency. Treatment with cardiac glycosides in combination with metabolic preparations (ATP methionine, vitamin B12, inosine-F, and extract of the heart muscle) leads to a more conspicuous reduction in the symptoms of congestion in the lesser circulation than that encountered in treatment with cardiac glycosides alone. The reduction in these symptoms following treatment with ATP and heart-muscle extract may be explained not only by improved myocardial contractility but also by the direct vasodilating effect of adenyl compounds.