Pulmonary haemodynamics during recovery from maximum incremental cycling exercise

Rudolf K F Oliveira1, Aaron B Waxman2, Manyoo Agarwal2

  • 1Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dept of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Division of Respiratory Diseases, Dept of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Summary

Pulmonary haemodynamics during exercise recovery are not reliable for diagnosing exercise pulmonary hypertension (ePH) or venous hypertension (ePVH). Recovery measurements showed low sensitivity, though ePH and ePVH had distinct recovery patterns.

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