Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and Cardiovascular Health

Preface. .

SECTION 1. PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TESTING.

Chapter 1. Circulatory Coupling of External to Muscle Respiration During Exercise (Karlman Wasserman, William W. Stringer, Xing-Guo Sun, and Akira Koike).

Chapter 2. Skeletal Muscle Metabolism During Exercise in Chronic Heart Failure (Koichi Okita).

SECTION 2. GRADING HEART FAILURE AND PREDICTING SURVIVAL.

Chapter 3. Predicting Survival in Heart Failure: Exercise-Based Prognosticating Algorithms (Donna Mancini).

Chapter 4. Grading Heart Failure and Predicting Survival: Slope of VE versus Vco2 (Andrew J. S. Coats).

Chapter 5. Peak Vo2, Anaerobic Threshold, and Ventilatory Equivalent as Predictors of Survival in Heart Failure (Anselm K. Gitt, Caroline Bergmeier, and Jochem Senges).

Chapter 6. Abnormalities in Exercise-Derived Gas Exchange Variables Other than Peak Vo2 and Anaerobic Threshold in Chronic Heart Failure (Alain Cohen-Solal, Maria Tokmakova, and Pierre Vladimir Ennezat).

Chapter 7. Time Constant for Vo2 and Other Parameters of Cardiac Function in Heart Failure (Akira Koike, Michiaki Hiroe, and Haruki Itoh).

Chapter 8. Optimizing Decision Making in Heart Failure: Applications of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Risk Stratification (Jonathan Myers).

Chapter 9. Preoperative Assessment of Elderly Surgical Patients (Paul Older and Adrian Hall) .

SECTION 3. DISEASE-SPECIFIC ABNORMALITIES IN EXERCISE GAS EXCHANGE.

Chapter 10. Lung Diffusion Abnormalities and Exercise Capacity in Heart Failure (Pier Guiseppe Agostoni and Maurizio Bussotti).

Chapter 11. Cardiopulmonary and Metabolic Responses to Exercise in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (Brian J. Whipp, Soraya Jones, Perry M. Elliott, Sanjay Sharma, and William J. McKenna).

Chapter 12. Oxygen Uptake Abnormalities During Exercise in Coronary Artery Disease (Haruki Itoh, Akihiko Tajima, Akira Koike, Naohiko Osada, Tomoko Maeda, Makoto Kato, Kazuto Omiya, Long Tai Fu, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Kazuzo Kato).

Chapter 13. Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Pulmonary Vascular Disease: Arterial and End-Tidal CO2 Partial Pressures in Patients with Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Embolism and Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (Peer E. Waurick, and Franz X. Kleber).

Chapter 14. Abnormalities in Exercise Gas Exchange in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (Ronald J. Oudiz, and Xing-Guo Sun).

Chapter 15. Exercise Gas Exchange in Peripheral Arterial Disease (Timothy A. Bauer and William R. Hiatt) .

SECTION 4. SEQUENTIAL CHANGES IN EXERCISE GAS EXCHANGE TO ASSESS CLINICAL COURSE AND THERAPY.

Chapter 16. Changing Assessment of Exercise Capacity in Potential Candidates for Cardiac Transplantation (Lynne Warner Stevenson).

17. Exercise Training in Heart Failure Patients (Romualdo Belardinelli).

18. Exercise Testing to Monitor Heart Failure Treatment (Marco Guazzi).

Index.