Cardiopulmonary exercise test predicts right heart catheterization

ConclusionIn patients with suspected PAH, VEint during exercise and the VE/VCO2 slope might provide useful information to predict results of RHC. Their correlations with PVR and with DPG may be helpful in discriminating patients with isolated post‐capillary PH from those with combined post‐capillary and pre‐capillary.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Source: European Journal of Clinical Investigation - October 30, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michele Correale, Lucia Tricarico, Armando Ferraretti, Ilenia Monaco, Morena Concilio, Giuseppina Padovano, Gianfranco Acanfora, Matteo Di Biase, Natale Daniele Brunetti Tags: Original Paper Source Type: research