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Chronotropic Incompetence: How to Diagnose and Treat It?

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Cardiac Arrhythmias 1997

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During dynamic exercise the acceleration of ventricular rate, due to vagal withdrawal, is the most important contribution for increasing cardiac output according to the metabolic needs. The inability to adequately increase the heart rate in response to exercise is defined Atrial Chronotropic Incompetence (ACI).

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  1. Divisione di Cardiologia, Ospedali Riuniti, Azienda Ospedaliera “Bianchi-MelacrinoMorelli”, Reggio Calabria, Italy

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  2. Istituto Pluridisciplinare di Clinica Medica I, Università di Messina, Italy

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    Antonio Raviele MD

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Adornato, E., Adornato, E.M.F. (1998). Chronotropic Incompetence: How to Diagnose and Treat It?. In: Raviele, A. (eds) Cardiac Arrhythmias 1997. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2288-1_62

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