title: Left ventricular pressure-length relation during exercise-induced ischemia.
abstract: The pressure-length relation in normal and ischemic segments was analyzed with use of left ventriculography and simultaneous micromanometry during supine exercise in 9 normal subjects and 12 patients with effort angina. Segmental analysis was done in the right anterior oblique projection using a long axis with three perpendicular, equidistant chords. The apical segment in the 12 patients with coronary artery disease represented the ischemic region. In 5 of the 12 patients with coronary artery disease, the basal segment that showed no exercise-induced deterioration in wall motion was used as an intrapatient control (nonischemic segment). In the 12 patients with coronary artery disease, left ventricular ejection fraction decreased (from 65% to 50%, p less than 0.001), end-diastolic pressure increased (from 24 to 40 mm Hg, p less than 0.001) and the lowest diastolic filling pressure increased (from 9 to 22 mm Hg, p less than 0.001) during exercise-induced ischemia. In normal subjects, ejection fraction increased (from 64% to 70%, p less than 0.01) with unchanged end-diastolic pressure, whereas the lowest diastolic filling pressure decreased during exercise (from 9 to 3 mm Hg, p less than 0.01). Global left ventricular diastolic pressure-volume curves showed an upward and rightward shift during exercise-induced ischemia. Regional pressure-length curves of both nonischemic (n = 5) and ischemic (n = 12) segments were shifted upward in early diastole, but moved to a higher portion of the rest pressure-length curve without an upward shift during mid- to end-diastole. In contrast, the apical segment in normal subjects showed a downward shift during exercise.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Medical Policlinic, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nonogi
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Hess
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Bortone
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ritter
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Krayenbuehl
mesh_terms: D001642:Bicycling; D001794:Blood Pressure; D001810:Blood Volume; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003971:Diastole; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values; D013484:Supination