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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Chronic Heart Failure

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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) is being increasingly used in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) for diagnostic and prognostic purposes. It provides major insights regarding the degree of functional impairment, the prognosis, and the effect of treatment. Despite the availability of simple and rapid gas analyzers, the general belief is that the procedure is complex, which is not the case. Peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2) is generally the only variable used to evaluate exercise capacity and prognosis. However, CPX provides a lot of information besides peak VO2.

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  1. Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France

    Alain Cohen-Solal, Florence Beauvais & Jean Yves Tabet

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  1. Public Health Department, Kalmar County, Oskarshamn, Sweden

    Joep Perk FESC

  2. Klinische Kardiologie II, Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Germany

    Helmut Gohlke FACC, FESC

  3. Institute of Health Sciences Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Irene Hellemans MD, (Speciality Cardiology), PhD

  4. Department of Cardiology, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Irene Hellemans MD, (Speciality Cardiology), PhD

  5. Hôpital Broussais-HEGP, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

    Philippe Sellier MD

  6. Department of Cardiology, Technical University of Munich Munich Rehabilitation Center, München, Germany

    Peter Mathes MD, FACC, FESC

  7. Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Bois Gilbert, Ballan Miré, France

    Catherine Monpère MD

  8. Department of Psychology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

    Hannah McGee BA(Mod), PhD, RegPsycholFPsSI

  9. Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation University, Hospital Inselspital, Switzerland

    Hugo Saner MD

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Cohen-Solal, A., Beauvais, F., Tabet, J.Y. (2007). Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Chronic Heart Failure. In: Perk, J., et al. Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-502-8_15

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