Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) has become an important clinical tool to evaluate
exercise capacity and predict outcome in patients with heart failure and other cardiac …

Evidence-based recommendations on the clinical use of cardiopulmonary exercise testing
(CPET) in lung and heart disease are presented, with reference to the assessment of …

Thus, the task of writing Guidelines or Expert Consensus documents covers not only the
integration of the most recent research, but also the creation of educational tools and …

Two of the previous International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)
consensus conferences have addressed listing criteria for patients awaiting heart …

Background—Predicting the risk of cardiac and all-cause death in patients with established
coronary heart disease is important in counseling the individual and designing risk-stratified …

Background—The role of the giant protein titin in patients with heart failure is not well
established. We investigated titin expression in patients with end-stage heart failure …

Background In most previous epidemiological studies on the prevalence of chronic heart
failure (CHF) the disorder has been defined on clinical criteria. In a cross-sectional survey of …

The shortage of available donor hearts continues to limit cardiac transplantation. For this
reason, strict criteria have limited the number of patients placed on the US waiting list to≈ …

Aims The 6-min walk test may serve as a more simple clinical tool to assess functional
capacity in congestive heart failure than determination of peak oxygen uptake by …

Background—Peak oxygen uptake (peak V̇o2) is a strong predictor of mortality and is
commonly used in the evaluation of patients for cardiac transplantation. β-Blockers reduce …