Extract
Owing to the lack of a suitable definition, exercise criteria for the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (PH) were removed from consensus guidelines following the 4th World Pulmonary Hypertension Symposium in 2008 [1] and have remained absent following the 5th World Symposium [2] and recent European Cardiology Society/European Respiratory Society guidelines [3]. Nonetheless, there remains significant interest in properly defining an abnormal pulmonary vascular response to exercise [4–6].
Abstract
Exercise-induced PH defined by the mPAP-CO relationship may lack sensitivity for detecting pulmonary vascular disease http://ow.ly/v0r330dVzxr
Footnotes
Support statement: Financial support for this study comes from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, grants F32 HL129687 (C.J. Mullin) and R01HL114910 (P.M. Hassoun). Funding information for this article has been deposited with the Crossref Funder Registry.
Conflict of interest: Disclosures can be found alongside this article at erj.ersjournals.com
- Received April 13, 2017.
- Accepted June 17, 2017.
- Copyright ©ERS 2017