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A Simplified Stepwise Approach to Echo Guidance during Percutaneous Mitral Valve Repair
Published on: October 16, 2021
[Arrhythmias and heart blocks in flying personnel with mitral valve prolapses]
Abstract:
Investigated were 76 pilots with ECG-verified mitral valve prolapses (MVP) of the 1st and 2nd degree (w/o profound regurgitation). There were various heart blocks and ECG repolarization changes in 35 cases. Comparison of results of the cardiovascular functional investigations of flyers with MVP displayed non-specific cardiac rhythm and conductance disturbances that were registered more often during ECG-monitoring or test loading. According to the data of this study, bicycle and treadmill ergometry revealed "pseudoischemic" shifts in ECG. Literary indications of a significant loss in human endurance of physical loads due to MVP combined with the strain-induced arrhythmia received the experimental confirmation. Probably, arrhythmias in flyers with diagnosed MVP are predominantly associated with electric instability of the myocardium against the autonomous dysfunction with prevailing adrenergic effects.
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