... ≥500 ms, diagnostic challenges arise in borderline cases of QTc prolongation, where further clinical investigations are needed to be performed to clarify whether LQTS exists. Clinical diagnostic investigations, including exercise testing, are more readily available, convenient, and easily interpretable...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Valvular heart disease Exercise testing Radionuclide cineangiography When severe, aortic regurgitation (AR) gradually leads to irreversible left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, heart failure (HF), and death. Indeed, sudden...

... 2012 Anorexia nervosa Junctional rhythm Exercise testing Bradycardia QT prolongation • Anorexia nervosa carries the highest mortality of all psychiatric disorders. • Although sinus bradycardia is considered an adaptive response to weight loss, sinus node dysfunction...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Trimetazidine Meta-analysis Exercise testing Angina pectoris The therapeutic aim of treatments for stable...

... disease; group 3, 10 patients with three-vessel disease. Group 4 comprised 20 patients with left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction < 35%). The left ventricular ejection fraction was assessed by multigated acquisition radionuclear study. All patients underwent a cardiopulmonary exercise test...

... Merdlera Basil S. Lewisa Departments of " Cardiology and b Internal Medicine A, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, c Zvulun Outpatient Clinic and the Bruce Rappaport School of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Haifa, Israel Key Words Cardiac rehabilitation Exercise testing Exercise capacity...

...%. The model correctly identified 28/36 (78%) patients with CAD, and 7/10 (70%) patients with NCA (correct diagnosis 76%; p < 0.02) in a separate random group of 46 unselected patients with positive exercise tests undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography. 27 02 1996 29 07 1996 19 11 2008...

... and Clinical Utility of Exercise Thallium-201 Single Photon Emission-Computed Tomography in a Community Hospital Key Words SPECT imaging Thallium-201 Exercise testing Myocardial ischemia Coronary artery disease Abstract Single photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) imaging with thal­ lium-201...

... ventricular function. Captopril 25 mg (or placebo) was given twice, i.e. in the evening (10 p.m.) and the following morning (8 a.m.), prior to a maximal symptom-limited bicycle exercise test (11 a.m.). Captopril reduced the systolic and dia-stolic blood pressures at rest (p < 0.01) without causing any...

... volunteers with lone AF compared with heterogeneous patients in normal sinus rhythm referred for exercise testing for clinical reasons in our laboratory. Thus, the response to exercise and prognosis of patients with AF is determined more by the underlying heart disease than by the arrhythmia itself. 22...

... had an exercise test positive for ischemia by established criteria. Left anterior descending disease was characterized by S-T segment elevation ( > 0.05 mV) in lead VI [sensitivity (S) 71%, specificity (Sp) 100%], a T wave amplitude increase in VI (S 88%, Sp 73%) and a leftward shift or no change...

...Louis Abboud; Jamal Hir; Iris Eisen; Walter Markiewicz This study evaluates the prognostic value of ST-segment depression and angina pectoris occurring alone or in combination during exercise testing performed 3 weeks after myocardial infarction in 281 of 570 consecutive survivors of acute...

... that this minor improvement alone can be responsible for the reduction in cardiac death. So far it has not been clearly established how thrombolytic therapy affects postinfarction myocardial ischemia. From studies evaluating ST segment changes on exercise testing or ambulatory monitoring it is concluded...

...Masha Chayet; Amos Pines; Enrique Z. Fisman; Yoram Levo; Yaacov Drory Twenty-one male patients with a history of myocardial infarction underwent bicycle cardiopulmonary exercise testing. The onset of leg pain or dyspnea, which reflects anaerobic metabolism, was termed anaerobic exercise symptom...

...J. Ouzan; L. Chapoutot; E. Carre; J.C. Liehn; J. Elaerts Data of clinical examination, exercise testing and exercise radionuclide angiography in 102 patients referred for assessment of chest pain was included in a logistic regression to optimize the diagnosis of coronary artery disease...

... (death or reinfarction) during 4 years was compared with variables from exercise testing and cardiac catheterization. Patients with markedly impaired left ventricular function [ejection fraction (EF) ≤0.30] were excluded. During follow-up there were 20 cardiac events (10 cardiac deaths and 10...

...Amos Pines; Enrique Z. Fisman; Yaacov Drory; Mordechai Averbuch; Efraim Ben-Ari; Ilana Gelernter; Yoram Levo; Jan J. Kellermann This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of tropicamide 0.5% eye drops on cardiovascular parameters during exercise testing. The study group included 154 healthy...

...D. Holmes; Z. Fryda-Kaurimsky†; K. Krueger Following a 4-week placebo period, 19 patients (12 male, average age 62.3 years) with chronic stable angina pectoris and a positive exercise test were treated with the beta-adrenoceptor antagonist bopindolol at increasing doses of 0.5, 1 and 2 mg, each...

..., Marinella Gattone, Ugo Cana, Francesco De Vito Division of Cardiology. Clinica del Lavoro Foundation. Institute of Care and Research, Medical Center of Rehabilitation. Veruno. Italy Key Words. Anaerobic threshold Heart failure Exercise testing Abstract. Limitation of exercise tolerance is a hallmark...

... data and of results from an exercise test 3 months post AMI revealed the following factors of independent predictive value for enhanced return to work: previous labor characterized as light or moderately heavy (p = 0.001), low age at the time of infarction (p = 0.001), timolol treatment (p = 0.009...