[Clinical and functional characteristics of patients with ischemic heart disease in long-term remission of angina pectoris].

Long-term (5-15-year) prospective surveys of 171 angina patients have yielded clinical, coronarographic, and bicycle ergometric criteria for predicting the favourable course of the disease. A prolonged (at least 3 years) clinical anginal remission was observed in 43 (25.1%) patients. The patients had typical features: a short (less than 6-9 months) history of classical angina, the age at the onset of CHD under 50 years; high performance during bicycle ergometric test, lack of angina after sustained so-called "accomplished" myocardial infarction. The coronarograms of patients with a long-term anginal remission most frequently displayed severe stenosis or occlusion of "unsafe" site of a large coronary artery. The duration of remission was less than 10 years if atherosclerosis also affected the remaining coronary arteries. That of remission was more than 10-15 years, if the remaining coronary arteries proved completely intact.