Cardiopulmonary exercise testing identifies low risk patients with heart failure and severely impaired exercise capacity considered for heart transplantation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 577-582

  Osada, Naohiko ^a   Chaitman, Bernard R ^a   Miller, Leslie W ^a   Yip, Daniel ^a   Cishek, Mary Beth ^a   Wolford, Thomas L ^a   Donohue, Thomas J ^a  

^a School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032030862     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(97)00533-0     Document Type: Article

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