The effects of cardiac rehabilitation on overall physical capacity and myocardial perfusion in women with microvascular angina.

Background: Cardiac syndrome X (CSX) is linked with changes in microcirculation, without significant changes in main coronary vessels. According to European Society of Cardiology 2013 stable coronary artery disease (CAD) criteria, CSX was replaced by microvascular angina (MA). The main feature of MA should be regional myocardial ischaemia; however, there are several works on this subject which failed to demonstrate the presence of perfusion defects.

Postinfarction left ventricular pseudoaneurysm with left-to-right shunt: case report and review of the literature.

Postinfarction left ventricular pseudoaneurysms are rarely detected because the clinical manifestations are heterogeneous. Pseudoaneurysms are especially difficult to detect and manage in patients whose ischemic heart disease is concomitant with other conditions. Here we report a unique case of postinfarction pseudoaneurysm with left-to-right shunt in a patient with the triple vessel disease who also had end-stage renal failure and was treated with long-term hemodialysis.

Physical training in patients with chronic heart failure of ischemic origin: effect on exercise capacity and left ventricular remodeling.

Background: Physical training is a well-known complementary treatment for chronic heart failure (CHF); however, many aspects require further studies. One of them is the impact on remodeling of the left ventricle (LV). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of 6 months of training on LV, exercise capacity and safety issues in patients with ischemic CHF.

Effect of physical training on quality of life and oxygen consumption in patients with congestive heart failure.

Aim: To assess changes in quality of life (QoL) and oxygen consumption produced by two different patterns of physical training in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF).

Material And Methods: 42 men (mean age 55.9+/-8.

[Heart rate variability and blood pressure variability in patients with heart failure undergoing cardiac rehabilitation].

Background: Autonomic nervous system plays an important role in the pathogenesis of chronic heart failure (CHF). Increasing sympathetic nervous activity and decreasing parasymphatetic activity has been observed in the course of CHF. Physical training modulates the activity of the autonomic nervous system and restores the sympathovagal balance, hence it may improve the prognosis in CHF.

[Radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia and preexcitation syndrome].

Radiofrequency ablation is a standard tool for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. It is most frequently performed in patients with nodal tachycardia, atrial flutter, and accessory atrioventricular pathway. The site for effective ablation is selected using an anatomical or electrophysiological method or both.

[Cardiopulmonary exercise test and heart rate variability in patients with congestive heart failure who underwent physical rehabilitation].

Physical rehabilitation of patients with heart diseases is a well-known therapeutical method used in patients with heart failure. However there is no consensus regarding rehabilitation program for these patients. The aim of this study was to assess tolerance of physical exercise and parameters of heart rate variability in patients with chronic heart failure who were exercised using different models of training.

[Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia--ARVD--case study].

A case of 20-year-old male with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD) is presented. The patient was admitted to hospital due to exercise-related syncope which was preceded by palpitations. ECG, echocardiography, radionuclide ventriculography and endomyocardial biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of ARVD.

[Effect of cardiac rehabilitation on left ventricular function and exertion capacity in patients with chronic congestive heart failure].

Unlabelled: Cardiac rehabilitation is proven to be an effective method of treatment in congestive heart failure (CHF) and it has a positive influence on exercise capacity. There are controversies concerning the influence of physical rehabilitation on morphological and functional parameters of the left ventricle. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is a very precise noninvasive method of cardiac examination.