The role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in identifying and monitoring pulmonary veno-oclusive disease: a case report with ING.

Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease diagnosis is still one of the most difficult tasks that pulmonary hypertension physicians have to deal with. An accurate and timely PVOD diagnosis can be challenging, as it is to decide the most appropriate timing of referal to the lung transplant team, and CPET may serve these purposes. Through this case, we would like to review one of the typical clinical courses that PVOD may present and how to analyse the information provided by the diagnostic tests.