Impact of left ventricular filling properties on the benefit of exercise training in patients with advanced chronic heart failure secondary to ischemic or nonischemic cardiomyopathy.
This study examined left ventricular (LV) filling properties and exercise hemodynamics noninvasively before and after an exercise training program in patients with chronic heart failure (HF). Although exercise training did not improve LV filling properties in patients with advanced HF, LV filling properties determined the hemodynamic benefit attainable from exercise in this patient group.
Freimark
Dov
D
Heart Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.
Adler
Yehuda
Y
Feinberg
Micha S
MS
Regev
Tal
T
Rotstein
Zeev
Z
Eldar
Michael
M
Motro
Michael
M
Schwammenthal
Ehud
E
D002908:Chronic Disease; D018450:Disease Progression; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000150:complications*; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000502:physiology*