title: Cardiopulmonary exercise test in chronic heart failure: beyond peak oxygen consumption.
abstract: Patients with cardiovascular diseases commonly present with exercise intolerance, clinically manifest as shortness of breath and fatigue, and these symptoms have important prognostic implications. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing is a well-established method for evaluation of cardiopulmonary diseases. It provides an objective assessment of maximal aerobic capacity (peak VO(2)), estimates prognosis, and allows the physician to discriminate among many subtle and often overlapping etiologies. This review focuses on the evaluation of important exercise parameters, in addition to the peak VO(2), during cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiovascular Disease, DHLRI 200, Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Section of Pulmonary Hypertension, The Ohio State University, 473 West 12th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. veronica.franco@osumc.edu
authors.forename: Veronica
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Franco
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D005080:Exercise Test; D017079:Exercise Tolerance; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D018570:Risk Assessment