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, wi...

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Published in:Pediatric cardiology 2018-03, Vol.39 (3), p.548-554
Main Authors: Dehghani, Seyed Mohsen, Moshref, Mitra, Amoozgar, Hamid, Hoseini, Seyed Ali Malek, Nikeghbalian, Saman
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cardiac Surgery
Cardiology
Heart
Liver
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Organ transplant recipients
Original Article
Pediatrics
Transplantation
Vascular Surgery
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Summary: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. The VO 2 values and METS in patients were less than the control ( P  = 0.001). Left ventricular posterior wall thickness in systole, left ventricular posterior wall thickness in diastole, interventricular septum diameter in diastole, A T , pulmonary acceleration time, S T and Ea T , Aa M , and S S had a significant difference between patients and the control group ( P value 
ISSN:0172-0643
1432-1971
DOI:10.1007/s00246-017-1786-3