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. 1988 May;399:437–449. doi: 10.1113/jphysiol.1988.sp017090

Ventilatory and circulatory responses at the onset of exercise in man following heart or heart-lung transplantation.

N Banner 1, A Guz 1, R Heaton 1, J A Innes 1, K Murphy 1, M Yacoub 1
PMCID: PMC1191674  PMID: 3136247

Abstract

1. Ventilatory and cardiovascular responses to the onset of voluntary and electrically induced leg exercise were studied in six patients following heart transplantation and five following heart-lung transplantation; the results were compared between the patient groups and also with responses from a group of normal subjects. 2. Oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production and ventilation and its components were measured over two 30 s periods prior to, and two 30 s periods following, the onset of exercise. Relative changes in stroke volume and cardiac output were derived from ensemble-averaged Doppler measurements of ascending aortic blood velocity over the same 30 s periods. 3. None of the groups of subjects showed any significant differences in responses to voluntary exercise compared to electrically induced exercise of similar work pattern and intensity. 4. Compared to normal controls, the transplanted subjects showed higher resting heart rates which did not increase at the onset of exercise; stroke volume increased, but less than in the normal subjects. The resulting cardiac output increases in the transplanted subjects were minimal compared to the normal subjects. 5. Ventilation and oxygen uptake increased immediately and with similar magnitude in all three groups. 6. These results show that in the same individual it is possible to have an appropriate ventilatory response to the onset of exercise in the presumed absence of a normal corticospinal input to the exercising muscles (electrically induced exercise) and afferent neural information from the lungs and heart, and in the absence of a normal circulatory response to exercise. The mechanisms underlying this ventilatory response remain undetermined.

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