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The Role of Exercise Testing in Pulmonary Vascular Disease: Diagnosis and Management

par Systrom, David D.M.;Warren, Arabella;Naeije, Robert
Référence Clinics in chest medicine, 42, 1, page (113-123)
Publication Publié, 2021-03

Article révisé par les pairs

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Exercise intolerance is the dominant symptom of pulmonary hypertension (PH). The gold standard for the estimation of exercise capacity is a cycle ergometer incremental cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET). The main clinical variables generated by a CPET are peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak), ventilatory equivalents for carbon dioxide (VE/VCO2), systolic blood pressure, oxygen (O2) pulse, and chronotropic responses. PH is associated with hyperventilation at rest and at exercise, and an increase in physiologic dead space. Maximal cardiac output depends on right ventricular function and critically determines a PH patient's exercise capacity. Dynamic arterial O2 desaturation can also depress the VO2peak.