Chest Email Content Delivery
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Moskowitz, R.
Right arrow Articles by Errichetti, A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Moskowitz, R.
Right arrow Articles by Errichetti, A.

Chest, Vol 93, 1190-1195, Copyright © 1988 by American College of Chest Physicians

ARTICLES

Response to exercise after withdrawal from chronic alcoholism

RM Moskowitz, MG Parent, RC Marshall, CA Barnett and AJ Errichetti
Cardiology Section, Martinez Veterans Administration Medical Center, CA 94553.

To test for early evidence of alcoholic cardiomyopathy and to assess changes in exercise response after abstinence, 12 asymptomatic alcoholic men (group 1) underwent maximal upright bicycle exercise radionuclide ventriculography two to six days after alcohol withdrawal. Six of these patients (group 1A) had similar testing two to four weeks later. Six control subjects (group 2) had repeated exercise tests without isotope study. Group 1 left ventricular ejection fraction response (LVEF) was normal. LVEF at similar workloads did not differ in group 1A (p = NS). However, unlike group 2 results, the linear regression line relating double product to exercise stage in group 1A was higher at first exercise (p less than 0.05), probably due to the effects of alcohol withdrawal. We conclude that radionuclide left ventriculographic findings in these patients do not support the concept of a preclinical alcoholic cardiomyopathy made apparent by exercise, and exercise very early after alcohol withdrawal is associated with an increased myocardial oxygen demand at any given workload.




HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1988 by the American College of Chest Physicians.