[Appearance of pathologic diastolic impedance wave during exercise test as a sign of physical exertion intolerance in patients in the early period of myocardial infarction].

A review of the results of bicycle ergometry under continuous electrocardiographic monitoring and chest rheograms in 316 males of able age, including 115 patients with early myocardial infarction, demonstrated that inadequate hemodynamic support (transitory heart failure), emerging during exercise in 45.2% of patients with early myocardial infarction, was reflected in considerably increased diastolic wave amplitude. Since some of the patients exhibited no electrocardiographic ischemic changes at testing, the emergence of an abnormal diastolic impedance wave may serve as an objective indicator of stress intolerance.