[Cardiovascular lesion in ischemic heart disease patients with acute infections of the respiratory tract not confirmed by laboratory tests].

The authors studied the effects of acute infections of the respiratory tract of unclear etiology on the coronary heart disease in 213 patients. It was established that acute respiratory infections unconfirmed by the laboratory data exert the same unfavourable effect on the CHD as influenza and other etiologically unraveled respiratory infections. The patients showed exacerbation up to the development of the foci of dystrophy and large-focal myocardial infarction. The authors make an important conclusion that all the CHD patients with acute respiratory infections need ECG control, bed regime and adequate drugs whatever the etiology of infections, the presence or lack of laboratory confirmation of the diagnosis.