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Heart rate response during 6-minute walking testing predicts outcome in operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

BACKGROUND: Six-minute walk test (6MWT) is routinely performed in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) before pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA). However, the clinical relevance of heart rate response (ΔHR) and exercise-induced oxygen desaturation (EID) during 6MWT is remaining unknown....

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Autores principales: Richter, Manuel Jonas, Milger, Katrin, Tello, Khodr, Stille, Philipp, Seeger, Werner, Mayer, Eckhard, Ghofrani, Hossein A., Gall, Henning
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932688/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27377832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-016-0260-y