RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and its application
JF Postgraduate Medical Journal
JO Postgrad Med J
FD The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
SP 675
OP 682
DO 10.1136/hrt.2007.121558
VO 83
IS 985
A1 Albouaini, Khaled
A1 Egred, Mohaned
A1 Alahmar, Albert
A1 Wright, David Justin
YR 2007
UL http://pmj.bmj.com/content/83/985/675.abstract
AB Cardiopulmonary exercise testing CPET has become an important clinical tool to evaluate exercise capacity and predict outcome in patients with heart failure and other cardiac conditions. It provides assessment of the integrative exercise responses involving the pulmonary, cardiovascular and skeletal muscle systems, which are not adequately reflected through the measurement of individual organ system function. CPET is being used increasingly in a wide spectrum of clinical applications for evaluation of undiagnosed exercise intolerance and for objective determination of functional capacity and impairment. This review focuses on the exercise physiology and physiological basis for functional exercise testing and discusses the methodology, indications, contraindications and interpretation of CPET in normal people and in patients with heart failure.