Persistent exercise intolerance after pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
Dieuwertje RuigrokLilian J MeijboomEsther J NossentAnco BoonstraNatalia J BraamsJessie van WezenbeekFrances S de ManJ Tim MarcusAnton Vonk NoordegraafPetr SymerskyHarm-Jan BogaardPublished in: The European respiratory journal (2020)
The majority of CTEPH patients have exercise intolerance after PEA, often despite normalisation of resting haemodynamics. Not all exercise intolerance after PEA is explained by the presence of residual pulmonary hypertension, and lower preoperative T LCO was a strong predictor of exercise intolerance 6 months after PEA.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary hypertension
- high intensity
- physical activity
- end stage renal disease
- resistance training
- pulmonary artery
- chronic kidney disease
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- prognostic factors
- heart rate
- peritoneal dialysis
- coronary artery disease
- coronary artery bypass grafting
- percutaneous coronary intervention