The value of the diastolic pulmonary arterial pressure for the estimation of the cardiac functional capacity in patients with myocardial infarct
Urbaszek, W.; Schauer, J.; Günther, K.; Pankau, H.
Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete 31(2): 314-317
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2542 PMID: 960886 Document Number: 107796
From 4 weeks to several months after infarction the patients revealed an altogether clearly decreased total physical functional capacity compared with healthy persons. Behaviour of pulse and blood pressure as well as ventilatory indices in comparable Watt-degrees did not reveal any significant differences compared with persons with a healthy heart. The stroke volume pro surface and the heart-time-volume did also not reveal any determinable deviation concerning the mean values compared with normal persons. In patients with compensated infarction the pulmonary arterial pressure in rest was, as a rule, within the normal. However, under load it increased more than in healthy persons. Patients with decompensated infarction revealed a PAEDP in rest between 20 and more than 30 Torr. The question about a critical PAEDP under load should further be pursued. The ECG gives reliable limiting findings in functional examinations.