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Myocardial Infarction and Functional Outcome Assessment in Pigs
Published on: April 25, 2014
The current value of exercise testing soon after acute myocardial infarction
Abstract:
We performed exercise testing in 236 of 289 survivors of acute myocardial infarction to test the hypothesis that exercise-related parameters contribute to cardiac prognosis. Beta-blockers and/or calcium antagonists were used by 50% and 55% respectively of the study population. Of the 236 patients 67 had received thrombolytic therapy during the acute event. By either univariate or multivariate analysis, we found that exercise-related parameters were poor predictors of cardiac prognosis. Therefore, in our population, exercise testing performed 3 weeks after myocardial infarction provides little information of prognostic value.
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