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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on January 9, 2006
European Heart Journal 2006 27(6):633-634; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi713
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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing for heart failure patients: a hodgepodge of techniques, parameters and interpretations. In other words, the need for a time-break

Piergiuseppe Agostoni1,2,*,{dagger}

1Centro Cardiologico Monzino, IRCCS, Istituto di Cardiologia, Università di Milano, via Parea 4, 20138 Milan, Italy
2Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98185, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +39 02 58002299; fax: +39 02 58011039. E-mail address: piergiuseppe.agostoni@ccfm.it

This editorial refers to ‘Enhanced prognostic value from cardiopulmonary exercise testing in chronic heart failure by non-linear analysis: oxygen uptake efficiency slope’{ddagger} by L. Ceri Davies et al., on page 684

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It is reported in several papers, and is widely accepted by most scientists, that cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) is the best way to evaluate exercise capacity and, more importantly, to identify the prognosis of chronic heart failure patients.1 However, several technical issues can effectively influence the results obtained by CPET. Some of these issues are known, but frequently forgotten or ignored, and some are simply unknown. I will report a few examples. First, we have known since the work of Elborn et al.2 that for properly determined . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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