The effect of sodium chloride baths on the physical work capacity and extrasystole of patients with ischemic heart disease and stable stenocardia
Klemenkov, S.V.; Davydova, O.B.; Levitskiĭ, E.F.; Chashchin, N.F.; Sharova, O.I.; Kubushko, I.V.
Voprosy Kurortologii Fizioterapii i Lechebnoi Fizicheskoi Kultury 3: 19-21
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8787 PMID: 10429566 Document Number: 498443
73 patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stable angina pectoris of NYHA class I and II underwent balneotherapy. 43 of them took a course of sodium chloride baths, 30 control patients took common water baths. As shown by spiroveloergometry and Holter monitoring, sodium chloride baths are a good training modality in IHD patients. They enhance muscular performance and coronary heart reserve, reduce the mean 24-h number of ventricular extrasystoles by 49.9%, supraventricular extrasystoles by 57.5%.