A practical approach to assess leg muscle oxygenation during ramp-incremental cycle ergometry in heart failure

Heart failure is characterized by the inability of the cardiovascular system to maintain oxygen (O2) delivery (i.e., muscle blood flow in non-hypoxemic patients) to meet O2 demands. The resulting increase in fractional O2 extraction can be non-invasively tracked by deoxygenated hemoglobin concentrat...

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Main Authors: A.C. Barroco, P.A. Sperandio, M. Reis, D.R. Almeida, J.A. Neder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2017-10-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2017001200603&lng=en&tlng=en

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