Impaired chronotropic response to exercise in children with repaired cyanotic congenital heart disease.

Objective: Conventionally the heart rate response to exercise has been considered as a useful parameter for the assessment of exercise performance. However, in patients with surgical repair of congenital heart defects sino-atrial dysfunction has been observed after cardiac surgery.The purpose of this study was to assess whether the heart rate response to exercise can be used in the assessment of exercise performance.

A Java software for calculating mean breath-by-breath variability in gas exchange parameters: application in young cardiac patients with exercise-related periodic breathing.

Oscillatory changes in parameters of gas exchange have been reported during rest and exercise in cardiac patients with severely depressed left ventricular function. As a result of the growing interest in this oscillatory phenomenon, several methods for assessment of this ventilatory response have been presented in cardiovascular research. Nowadays, objective measurement becomes more important.