Effect of domiciliary oxygen therapy on exercise capacity and quality of life in patients with pulmonary arterial or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: a randomised, placebo-controlled trial.

Stéphanie SaxerStéphanie SaxerElisabeth D HaslerEsther I SchwarzSimon R SchneiderMichael FurianPatrick R BaderMona LichtblauKonrad E Bloch

Published in: The European respiratory journal (2019)

This first randomised trial in PAH/CTEPH patients with exercise-induced hypoxaemia demonstrates that DOXT improves exercise capacity, quality of life and functional class. The results support large long-term randomised trials of DOXT in PAH/CTEPH.

Keyphrases

pulmonary hypertension
double blind
study protocol
open label
clinical trial
high intensity
placebo controlled
physical activity
pulmonary artery
pulmonary arterial hypertension
resistance training
randomized controlled trial
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
cell therapy
smoking cessation