Response of the Oxygen Uptake Efficiency Slope to Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: Lack of Correlation With Changes in Central Hemodynamic Parameters and Resting Lung Function

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 921-926

  Van Laethem, Christophe ^a,b   Goethals, Marc ^a   Verstreken, Sofie ^a   Walravens, Maarten ^a   Wellens, Francis ^a   De Proft, Margot ^a   Bartunek, Jozef ^a   Vanderheyden, Marc ^a  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

^b Artevelde Insititute of Higher Education ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; REST;

EID: 34548432201     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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