[Heart rhythm disorders and blood rehology in ischemic heart disease].

Blood rheology was studied in 92 patients with ischemic heart disease having cardiac rhythm disorders. The syndrome of high blood viscosity and increased blood platelets aggregation were observed in paroxysmal tachycardia. In patients suffering from myocardial infarction with arrhythmia there was noted higher blood viscosity and more intensive blood platelet aggregation than in atherosclerotic cardiosclerosis. Treatment of paroxysmal tachycardia by means of electric impulse and agents blocking beta-adrenergic receptors results in a decrease of blood viscosity, the blood platelets aggregation intensity being unchanged.