Exercise Performance in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients and Its Related Cardiac Function.

The aim of this study was to evaluate an exercise test in pediatric liver transplant recipients and its relation to their cardiac function. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 58 children who had successfully undergone orthotopic liver transplantation at least 6 months prior to the study, with the same age and gender-matched control group. M-mode, Doppler, tissue Doppler echocardiography and an exercise test were performed for all the participants.