[The efficacy of pneumocalorimetry for the quantitative evaluation of treatment results in patients with pneumoconiosis and rheumocarditis].

The respiratory system conditioning function (CFRS) was evaluated with the aid of pneumocalorimetry by taking account of respiratory thermic losses spent to warm breathing air in the volume of vital capacity. There were 100 patients with pneumoconiosis and 49 ones with rheumatic carditis. In the course of treatment of patients with pneumoconiosis, both occurrence and degree of insufficiency of the conditioning function (CF) got decreased, with reduction in CF insufficiency degree being 60% in those patients faring well owing to the treatments administered, and 40% in those not having benefited much from the treatment. 73% of patients with rheumatic carditis experienced, under the influence of the treatment received, decline in the degree of CF insufficiency. Thus, pneumocalorimetric criterion described above will, we believe, help in quantitating the efficiency of treatment of CF insufficiency.