Muscle Blood Flow During Forearm Exercise in Patients With Severe Heart Failure
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Muscle fatigue is a prominent symptom in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). To determine whether it results from an intrinsic abnormality of vasodilating capacity of the vasculature in exercising muscle, we studied local forearm blood flow (FBF) during exercise in 13 patients with severe CHF and in eight normal untrained subjects of similar age. Intermittent forearm static exercise was performed by squeezing a hand dynamometer for 5 seconds, three times per minute, for 5 minutes at 15%, 30%, and 45% of maximum voluntary contraction. FBF
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