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The effect of regular physical activity on the left ventricle systolic function in patients with chronic coronary artery disease

Authors

PANOVSKÝ Roman KUKLA Pavel JANČÁR Radek MELUZÍN Jaroslav JANČÍK Jiří KINCL Vladimír POLOKOVÁ Karin MÍFKOVÁ Leona HAVELKOVÁ Alena LÁTALOVÁ Radka DOBŠÁK Petr PEŠL Martin

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Physiological Research
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Cardiovascular diseases incl. cardiosurgery
Keywords coronary artery disease; aerobic training; left ventricle systolic function
Description The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of aerobic training on the left ventricular (LV) systolic function. Thirty patients with stable coronary artery disease, who had participated in the conducted 3-month physical training, were retrospectively divided into 2 cohorts. While patients in the cohort I (n=14) had continued training individually for 12 months, patients in the cohort II (n=16) had stopped training after finishing the conducted program. Rest and stress dobutamine/atropine echocardiography was performed in all patients before the training program and 1 year later. The peak systolic velocities of mitral annulus (Sa) were assessed by tissue Doppler imaging for individual LV walls. In addition, to determine global LV systolic longitudinal function, the four-site mean systolic velocity was calculated (Sa glob). According to the blood supply, left ventricular walls were divided into 5 groups. Patients with regular 12-month physical activity improved their global left ventricle systolic function mainly due to improvement of contractility in walls supplied by a totally occluded coronary artery.
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