Possible clinical relevance of pulmonary haemodynamics during exercise
| Decision on valve surgery/intervention: symptomatic mild mitral stenosis and low flow/low gradient aortic stenosis, asymptomatic severe aortic insufficiency and mitral regurgitation |
| Unmasking of abnormal physiology during exercise suggestive of occult pulmonary vascular or left heart disease or early pulmonary vascular disease in patients at risk of PAH |
| Diagnostic work-up of patients with known chronic pulmonary or cardiac disease, but still unexplained dyspnoea |
| Diagnostic work-up of pulmonary hypertension: discrimination between group 1 and group 2 pulmonary hypertension in patients with ambiguous test results |
| Risk stratification in PAH: assessment of prognosis |
| Follow-up in PAH patients: assessment of treatment efficacy (exercise capacity and right ventricular function) |
PAH: pulmonary arterial hypertension.