TY - JOUR T1 - Exercise pulmonary haemodynamics: a test in search of purpose JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1315 LP - 1317 DO - 10.1183/13993003.00397-2016 VL - 47 IS - 5 AU - J. Gerry Coghlan AU - Harm Jan Bogaard Y1 - 2016/05/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/47/5/1315.abstract N2 - Ever since the entity of “exercise induced pulmonary hypertension” was banned from the pulmonary hypertension (PH) dictionary in 2008, during the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension at Dana Point (CA, USA) [1], there has been a concern that by just measuring pulmonary haemodynamics at rest, many patients with subclinical pulmonary vascular disease go unrecognised. This could be harmful, if subjects with an abnormal pulmonary haemodynamic response to exercise are at particular risk of developing PH and that early recognition of PH in these patients would improve their outcome. It may even be that the presence of an abnormal pulmonary haemodynamic response to exercise represents a treatable condition. To date, there is no proof to validate any of these assumptions.Borderline PH at rest predicts abnormal exercise pulmonary haemodynamics and exercise intolerance http://ow.ly/YVQTC ER -