The role of exercise testing soon after acute myocardial infarction.
Exercise testing is a readily available form of evaluation following acute myocardial infarction, especially in the early stages of recovery. Care is necessary to exclude bad-risk patients, but 70% of patients can be included. Either a treadmill or bicycle ergometer can be used. The important prognostic variables are left ventricular function indexes, and ventricular arrhythmias.
D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000175:diagnosis; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000009:adverse effects; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011379:Prognosis; D012306:Risk