[Assessment of the work capacity of patients with ischemic heart disease having undergone aortocoronary shunting].

The authors studied the physical working capacity of 199 patients with ischemic heart disease at different terms following aortocoronary shunting in comparison with 208 IHD patients before the operation. They took into consideration the number of attacks of stenocardia and 24-hour dose of nitroglycerine, tolerance to physical load depending on the degree of involvement of the coronary arteries of the heart. It was found that in establishing the working capacity of patients with IHD subjected to the operation of aortocoronary shunting one frequently does not consider the objective condition of the patients which results in artificial increase of the number of patients labelled as disabled in the aspect of working capacity.