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HEART
Volume 83, Issue 2, Pages 161-166Publisher
BRITISH MED JOURNAL PUBL GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/heart.83.2.161
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near-infrared spectroscopy; P-31-magnetic resonance spectroscopy; chronic heart failure; exercise tolerance
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Objective-To estimate muscle metabolism and oxygen delivery to skeletal muscle in patients with chronic heart failure. Methods-13 patients with chronic heart failure and 15 controls performed calf plantar flexion for six minutes at a constant workload of 50% of one repetition maximum. During recovery from exercise, skeletal muscle content of oxygenated haemoglobin (oxy-Hb) and the level of phosphocreatine (PCr) were measured by near-infrared spectroscopy and P-31-magnetic resonance spectroscopy, respectively. Results-The mean (SD) time constants of PCr and oxy-Hb during recovery from exercise were significantly greater in patients with chronic heart failure than in normal subjects (tau PCr: 76.3 (30.2) s v 36.5 (5.8) s; tau oxy-Hb: 48.3 (7.3) s v 30.1 (7.7) s; p < 0.01). Both time constants were similar in normal subjects, while the tau PCr was significantly greater than the tau oxy-Hb in patients with chronic heart failure. Conclusions-The slower recovery of PCr compared with oxy-Hb in patients with chronic heart failure indicates that haemoglobin resaturation is not a major rate limiting factor of PCr resynthesis. It is suggested that muscle metabolic recovery may depend more on oxygen utilisation than on haemoglobin resaturation or oxygen delivery in patients with chronic heart failure.
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