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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing provides valuable diagnostic and prognostic information beyond standard exercise testing for patients with heart, lung, and muscle diseases.
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing is a reproducible and accurate non-invasive method providing useful information for diagnosis, prognosis, and management across various patient subsets in cardiology.
May aid dyspnea evaluation in cardiac patients; leaves open parameter standardization and outcome validation in prospective studies.
Cardiopulmonary exercise test is reproducible, simple and accurate non-invasive method that provides additional useful information to standard exercise testing as an integral part of a growing number of recommendations and guidelines. Aerobic functional capacity can be estimated from expiratory gass analysis, in patients with unexplained exertional dyspnea, and in determination of diagnosis and prognosis for various groups of patients with heart, lung and muscle diseases. The choice of parameters depends on the type of disease we studied from stratification of heart failure to prescription of rehabilitation and participation in competitive sports.
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Nedeljković et al. (2012) conducted a review in Cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) was evaluated. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing provides valuable diagnostic and prognostic information beyond standard exercise testing for patients with heart, lung, and muscle diseases.
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