Evaluation of Respiratory Muscle Strength in Patients with Heart Failure
Veena Kiran Nambiar,
U. M. Nagamallesh,
M. Pitambare
Abstract:Context:
The estimated prevalence of heart failure (HF) is around 1% of the total population in India which is close by to 8–10 million individuals. Due to metabolic and structural skeletal muscle dysfunctions, peripheral muscles are impaired in the early stages of chronic HF (CHF). In experiments on rats with CHF, biopsies of respiratory muscles revealed histological abnormalities, such as atrophy of type 1 diaphragm fibers, resulting in decreased respiratory muscle strength and endurance.
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