Cardiopulmonary exercise test predicts right heart catheterization.

Michele CorrealeLucia TricaricoArmando FerrarettiIlenia MonacoMorena ConcilioGiuseppina PadovanoGianfranco AcanforaMatteo Di BiaseNatale Daniele Brunetti

Published in: European journal of clinical investigation (2017)

In 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 postcapillary PH from those with combined postcapillary and precapillary.

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