[Bicycle ergometry training during the sanatorium stage of patient rehabilitation after insertion of aortic valve prosthesis].

A sanatorium stage in the rehabilitation of patients who have aortic valve prosthesis is of great importance. The impact of bicycle ergometric trainings on these patients' physical rehabilitation had been little studied. Bicycle ergometric testing prior to and following the training and examination of external respiratory parameters enabled their efficiency to be increased. Bicycle ergometric trainings were demonstrated to improve the patients' status, to increase their physical working capacity, to result in a positive dynamics in heart rates and oxygen consumption. Following 1 year, the patients who had had trainings showed higher physical fitness for work, better indices in oxygen consumption, oxygen pulse, and metabolic units.