Effect of exercise therapy and models for echocardiographic left ventricular wall motion pattern

2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20700431
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Sapporo Medical University
• Principal Investigator: NEKI Toru Sapporo Medical University, 保健医療学部, 助手 (60457728)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2009
• Keywords: 心臓リハビリテーション / 心エコー図法 / 運動療法学

Research Abstract

About the current status of this implimentation of the basic measurement procedures established by echocardiography, the left ventricular systolic function and diastolic function using exercise stress echocardiography have been measured. Future directions as follows: 1. Examiner reproducibility in the acquisition of the same subject and measurement accuracy of wall motion and blood flow in the heart, 2. Development of the free-hand measurement and verification of reliability and validity of this method, 3. Making of the movie model matching to the movie video captured heart wall motion, 4. We will track changes over time in left ventricular systolic function and diastolic function by exercise.