[Physical and occupational work capacity of surgical patients with pale-type congenital heart defects]

A comparative assessment of energy losses and functional shifts in the system of circulation and respiration in various types of the professional activity in 22 patients 14,7 +/- 1,38 years after successful radical operations for the open arterial duct, defects of interatrial and interventricular septa, 64 healthy people and 12 nonoperated patients with similar congenital heart diseases was made. The patients subjected to timely radical operations were shown to possess working capacity and ability. They can fulfill a professional work with light and average strain under systematic control.