Cardiac reserve by 6-minute walk stress echocardiography in systemic sclerosis.
Miharu AraseKenya KusunoseSae MoritaNatsumi YamaguchiYukina HirataSusumu NishioYuichiro OkushiTakayuki IseTakeshi TobiumeKoji YamaguchiDaiju FukudaShusuke YagiHirotsugu YamadaTakeshi SoekiTetsuzo WakatsukiMasataka SataPublished in: Open heart (2021)
The 6MW stress echocardiography revealed impaired LV cardiac reserve in SSc patients with normal resting haemodynamics. Furthermore, LV cardiac reserve independently associates with clinical worsening in SSc, providing incremental prognostic utility, in addition to pulmonary vascular parameters.