Exercise intensity prescription after myocardial infarction in patients treated with beta-blockers.

Purpose: The aim of our study was to answer the following questions: (1) Is it possible to estimate the exercise training intensity according to heart rate in patients treated with beta-blockers after myocardial infarction? and (2) Are there any other appropriate alternate possibilities to estimate the training intensity?

Methods: This study involved 112 men (60.2 +/- 8.6 years) with a previous myocardial infarction treated with beta-blockers.

Dynamic stress echocardiography in asymptomatic patients who received chemotherapy in childhood because of a malignant disease.

Background: Introducing anthracycline antibiotics into the treatment of children's malignancies contributed enormously to the excellent outcome in children and adolescents. Nevertheless, the cardiotoxicity of such was discovered as early as in the 1970's. Only recently stress tests have been used to detect late cardiotoxic effects of anti-neoplastic drugs.

The late consequences of anthracycline treatment on left ventricular function after treatment for childhood cancer.

Unlabelled: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence of changes in left ventricular function in patients in long-term remission after treatment with anthracyclines for a childhood malignancy. The authors examined 155 patients in disease remission who underwent treatment protocols utilising anthracyclines in childhood. The group comprised 90 males and 65 females aged 15+/-4.