[Sex differences in the rehabilitative effect in patients after the correction of congenital heart defects under long-term observation].

In the process of prolonged observations a clinical and special functional examination of 33 patients (13 men and 20 women) operated upon in childhood for congenital heart diseases of the "pale type" was performed. A stable rehabilitating effect was obtained after radical surgical treatment. At the same time it was found that the level of the maximum physical work ability was retained in greater degree in women as compared with men and was even a little greater when economically used in rest and under physical load at the expense of higher gas exchange efficiency of blood circulation.