| Autor: |
W J, Tsai, H Y, Tsai, L Y, Kuo, Y S, Lin, B Y, Chen, W H, Lin, S L, Shen, H Y, Huang |
| Rok vydání: |
2018 |
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| Zdroj: |
Transplantation proceedings. 50(9) |
| ISSN: |
1873-2623 |
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The ventilatory efficiency represented cardiovascular, pulmonary, and musculoskeletal performance into an integrate index has been used as long-term and short-term prognostic variables in congestive heart failure. The heart failure patients post heart transplantation, whether the ventilatory efficiency was also normalized is still unknown.This was a cross-sectional study. We measured ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope and oxygen consumption in peak exercise (peak VOThere were 51 clinically stable post-heart transplantation patients (age 53 ± 12.4 years; 86.3% were male) at 65.14 ± 41.17 months after transplantation. The ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope was 29.2 ± 5.6, which significantly improved compared to that recorded 1 month after heart transplantation (32.6 ± 6.4). There were 20 patients in the abnormal group, characterized by lower 6-minute walking test distance (normal vs abnormal, 422.5 ± 97.8 vs 532.6 ± 87.6 m) and peak VOOur findings indicate that the ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope is partially abnormal among patients post-heart transplantation. A ventilation to carbon dioxide production slope above the normal range is characterized by a lower peak VO |
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OpenAIRE |
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