title: Relationship between exercise tolerance, hemodynamics at rest and during exercise and ejection fraction, and their prognostic relevance in asymptomatic postinfarction patients.
abstract: In 309 postmyocardial infarction patients (age 40 +/- 7.7 years) without persistent ischemia there is only a weak correlation between ejection fraction (EF) and exercise tolerance (r = 0.45, p < 0.01), and between EF and maximum cardiac output (CO; r = 0.41, p < 0.01) and maximum pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP; r = -0.32, p < 0.001). The same was true for exercise tolerance and maximum PCWP (r = -0.53, p < 0.001). A big scattering of individual values could be observed. Although we found a high positive correlation between maximum CO and exercise tolerance (r = 0.80, p < 0.001), in individual cases a low CO could be related to high exercise tolerance and vice versa. In the multivariate analysis, only the heart volume/kg body weight and maximum PCWP could be shown to be of independent prognostic importance for survival and/or mortality in the following years (chi 2 = 5.9, p < 0.015 and chi 2 = 7.2, p < 0.007, respectively).
authors.affiliation: Rehabilitationszentrum für Herz- und Kreislaufkranke, Bad Krozingen, FRG.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Samek
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Sierra-Chavez
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Betz
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schnellbacher
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Roskamm
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002302:Cardiac Output / Q000502:physiology*; D002306:Cardiac Volume / Q000502:physiology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005080:Exercise Test; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology