Does low level exercise increase intragastric PCO2 in patients with chronic heart failure?
Low-level exercise in CHF patients increases intragastric PCO2, indicating potential intestinal hypoperfusion that may contribute to bacterial translocation.
Patients with CHF already at low level exercise develop an increase in iPCO(2). This is likely to reflect hypoperfusion of the intestinal mucosa, which may contribute to the development of bacterial translocation.
Krack et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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