title: [What is the exercise capacity of patients with heart infarction after surgery of heart wall aneurysms?].
abstract: 29 patients with a postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm underwent an aneurysmectomy. The majority of patients exhibited a marked symptomatic improvement, a decrease in pulmonary artery pressure and an increase in cardiac index. The exercise capacity however was lower than normal in 80%. Good results were especially seen in patients with involvement of only one major coronary vessel by coronary artery disease and a good contractile function of the residual myocardium not involved by aneurysm.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000150:complications*; D005082:Physical Exertion; D011184:Postoperative Period
vernacular_title: Wie belastbar sind Infarktpatienten mit operierten Herzwand- Aneurysmen?