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Global and regional left ventricular circumferential strain during incremental cycling and isometric knee extension exercise.

Alexander J BeaumontNicholas SculthorpeJohn HoughViswanath UnnithanJoanna Richards
Published in: Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.) (2018)
Global circumferential strain increased stepwise during incremental cycling, mediated by the apex with trivial changes at the base. In contrast, GCS decreased during the isometric knee extension to 40% MVC and then plateaued, due to decreased BCS as ACS was maintained. A novel finding is that the GCS response appears to be exercise modality dependant and is the consequence of region-specific changes.
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