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Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2021 Nov;2021:5531-5534. doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630513.

Stroke Work Damping Ratio is Increased in Trained Athletes.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

L Lemes Coitinho, L J Cymberknop, I Farro, F Martinez, C Americo, N Lluberas, G Parma, J Aramburu, R L Armentano

PMID: 34892377 DOI: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9630513

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Athletes training is often associated with morphological changes in the heart. In this sense, the ventricular pressure-volume (PV) relation provides a complete characterization of cardiac pump performance. Regarding the arterial system (AS), arterial wall viscosity is a source of energy dissipation, that takes place during mechanical transduction. Left ventricular stroke work (SW) constitutes the useful fraction of ventricular energy that is delivered to the AS.

OBJECTIVE: Left ventricular PV-loops were evaluated in terms of AS viscous property, by means of the interaction of two SW components (Stroke Work Damping Ratio, SWDR), both in untrained and trained subjects.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: Fourteen healthy individuals (seven trained) were noninvasively evaluated in terms of echocardiographic and aortic pressure measurements.

RESULTS: SWDR was observed to be increased in trained subjects.

CONCLUSION: SWDR was evaluated in trained individuals, being increased in comparison with the non-trained group. This effect is a consequence of a significant increase of SWD, which could be related with the viscous mechanical property of AS.

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