THE INFLUENCE OF METOPROLOL ON EXERCISE TRAINING EFFECTS IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION

UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ The scientific journal FACTA UNIVERSITATIS Series: Medicine and Biology Vol.6, No 1, 1999 pp. 82 – 89 Editor of Series: Vladisav Ste...
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UNIVERSITY OF NIŠ The scientific journal FACTA UNIVERSITATIS Series: Medicine and Biology Vol.6, No 1, 1999 pp. 82 – 89 Editor of Series: Vladisav Stefanović, e-mail: [email protected] Adress: Univerzitetski trg 2, 18000 Niš, YU, Tel: +381 18 547-095 Fax: +381 18 547-950 http://ni.ac.yu/Facta

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THE INFLUENCE OF METOPROLOL ON EXERCISE TRAINING EFFECTS IN PATIENTS WITH ISCHEMIC LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION Milan Pavlović1, Miloje Tomašević1, Ljubomir Hadži Pešić2, Vladislav Marković2, Lazar Todorović1, Predrag Nikolić1 Svetlana Apostolović1 1

Cardiovascular Clinic, Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš Institute for Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Rheumatic and Cardiovascular Diseases, Niška Banja Yugoslavia 2

Summary. The aim of this study was to estimate the influence of chronic metoprolol treatment, which has been added to conventional heart failure, in patients with post infarction left ventricular dysfunction, on the effects of a one year physical training. Eighty-nine patients, who recently suffered myocardial infarction and also had left ventricular dysfunction with ejection fraction of 40% or less, were examined.The first part of the physical training program was carried out as residential rehabilitation in the course of three weeks. At the end of the residential phase of rehabilitation the functional capacity was increased in metoprolol group from 4.9±1.6 METs to 5.8±1.9 METs (p

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