Review Article
Assessing Exercise Limitation Using Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Table 1
Indications for cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
| Assessment of unexplained dyspnea | | Evaluation of disease severity | | Development of an exercise prescription for pulmonary | | rehabilitation | | Identification of gas exchange abnormalities | | Preoperative assessment: | | Lung cancer surgery | | Lung volume reduction surgery | | Heart or lung transplantation | | Evaluation for lung/heart transplantation | | Objective evaluation of exercise capacity | |
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