Longitudinal Changes in Heart Rate Recovery After Maximal Exercise in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients: Evidence of Autonomic Re-innervation?

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1306-1312

  Singh, Tajinder P ^a   Gauvreau, Kimberlee ^a   Rhodes, Jonathan ^a   Blume, Elizabeth D ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; BODY MASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART DENERVATION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINNERVATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADOLESCENT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERTION; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 37148998511     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.08.013     Document Type: Article

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