[Exercise tests in pneumopathy patients]

In this prospective work eleven pneumopathes patients were studied, ten of them with HAP, which were subjected to effort prove in endless band, in order to know the electrocardiographic alterations presented during the exercise. The VO2 máx was determined simultaneously in four patients. In the four, the value of this parameter was found under the normal value, which showed us a poor increase of the cardiac expense for the demands in the exercise. If the effort proves had not been practiced, this fact could not have been known. Related to the electrocardiographic alterations, cellular diastolic depolarization signs (cellular damage), product of the cellular damage, were found. The mechanics of this cellular damage, as well as the one of the poor increase of cardiac expense, are mentionned in the discussion.