Radionuclide imaging correlatives of heart rate impairment during maximal exercise testing
HK Hammond,
TL Kelly,
and
V Froelicher
A lower than normal heart rate response to maximal dynamic exercise, known as chronotropic incompetence or heart rate impairment, has been demonstrated to have a poor prognosis. In order to better describe patients with this finding, 156 men with coronary heart disease were evaluated. All patients were studied with maximal exercise testing, including measurements of oxygen consumption, exercise electrocardiograms, thallium scintigraphy and radionuclide ventriculography. Chronotropic incompetence was defined as a maximal heart rate 1 standard error of the estimate below the regression line of age versus maximal heart rate on two separate exercise tests. In patients so defined, mean maximal oxygen consumption was significantly lowered and angina was the major reason for stopping exercise on the treadmill. Patients with chronotropic incompetence not limited by angina had more evidence of myocardial scar and dysfunction and had a greater prevalence of three vessel coronary disease than did patients with a normal heart rate response. Radionuclide testing results suggest that among patients with chronotropic incompetence, those with angina have a better prognosis than those who do not have angina but who may have myocardial dysfunction.
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