[Problems in intramural and ambulatory drug therapy of heart insufficiency following myocardial infarct].

In 105 patients with acute myocardial infarction the intake of glycosides and diuretics according to indication was controlled in the period from the end of the acute phase up to the first year. Despite lacking clinical signs of a cardiac insufficiency the treatment established in the clinic was performed in an unchanged way up to the first year. It is the common task of the family doctors and cardiologists to take part in a scientific prescription of glycosides and diuretics after infarction.