Effect of long-term anti-arrhythmia treatment on the status of ischemic heart disease patients
Markov, K.V.; Sapozhnikova, A.A.
Kardiologiia 26(6): 51-53
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-9040 PMID: 2876122 Document Number: 277601
Standard ECG recording, prolonged ECG monitoring and bicycle ergometry were used in 329 coronary patients. Ventricular extrasystole of grades 2-5 (Lown's classification) was diagnosed in 126. The patients were randomly allocated to the main and control groups. Prolonged continuous treatment of the main-group patients with propranolol and other anti-arrhythmic drugs resulted in reduced occurrence of arrhythmic episodes, and lower heart rates and arterial blood pressure as well as alleviation of clinical anginal symptoms, as compared to the controls treated in local outpatient clinics.