Indicators of bicycle ergometry after heart transplantation
Shumakov, V.I.; Khubutiia, A.S.; Selezneva, E.A.; Oleĭnikova, L.G.; Chestukhin, V.V.; Kazakov, E.N.; Kormer, A.I.; Mkerali, N.G.
Klinicheskaia Meditsina 73(2): 18-21
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2149 PMID: 7609407 Document Number: 444571
Exercise tolerance in postcardiac transplantation patients versus healthy controls was studied at different intervals after the surgery using bicycle ergometry. Being low after the transplantation, exercise tolerance in the patients increased throughout the rehabilitation period but still did not reach the values characteristic for healthy subjects. Initial heart rate in the above patients was higher, while chronotropic and inotropic reserves of the transplanted heart appeared lower than in the controls. The data obtained help objectively assess the condition of the patients with transplanted heart.