While life expectancy is greatly improved after a heart transplant, survival is still limited, and
compared to the general population, the exercise capacity and health-related quality of life …

Organ transplantation is one of the medical miracles or the 20th century. It has the capacity
to substantially improve exercise performance and quality of life in patients who are severely …

Exercise intolerance in heart transplant recipients (HTR) has a multifactorial origin, involving
complex interactions among cardiac, neurohormonal, vascular, skeletal muscle and …

BACKGROUND: The exercise capacity of cardiac transplant recipients is reduced compared
with normal controls. However, clinical variables predictive of post-transplant exercise …

Background: Use of a permanent left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has been proposed as
an alternate treatment of patients with end-stage heart failure. The purpose of this study was …

Objectives. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility, safety and diagnostic
accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) for evaluating posttransplant …

Objective: Partial normalization of the heart rate (HR) response can take place some time
after heart transplantation (HTx), but the extent to which this occurs, its time course, and …

To better characterize the contribution of both central and peripheral mechanisms to passive
limb movement-induced hyperemia, we studied nine recent (< 2 yr) heart transplant (HTx) …

In more than 35 years of experience with heart transplantation, improvements in patient
selection, surgical techniques, organ preservation, and postoperative management have …

The heart rate (HR) and O 2 uptake (\mathopV\limits^⋅O_2) responses to cycle ergometer
exercise and the role of O 2 transport in limiting submaximal and maximal aerobic …