Clinical Exercise Testing

• Editorial: European Respiratory Society
• Año: 2007
• ISBN:
  9781904097808
• Categoría: Medicina
• Categoría: Teoria, pratica e riferimenti medici

Exercise tests have been used for a long time as diagnostic tools for cardiac diseases. During recent years they have become more widely recognised as valuable instruments in the diagnosis and monitoring of pulmonary disorders. In this Monograph, cardiopulmonary exercise testing for cardiac and pulmonary diseases has been presented.

Índice

• Cover
• Contents
• Guest editors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 - Determinants of the physiological systems responses to muscular exercise in healthy subjects
• Chapter 2 - Discriminating features of responses in cardiopulmonary exercise testing
• Chapter 3 - Patterns of cardiopulmonary response to exercise in lung diseases
• Chapter 4 - Patterns of response diagnostic for cardiac disease
• Chapter 5 - Equipment, measurements and quality control in clinical exercise testing
• Chapter 6 - Laboratory tests
• Chapter 7 - Walking for the assessment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• Chapter 8 - Reference values in adults
• Chapter 9 - Exercise testing in children with respiratory diseases
• Chapter 10 - Exercise testing in the prognostic evaluation of patients with lung and heart diseases
• Chapter 11 - Role of exercise testing in defining the response to interventions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients
• Chapter 12 - Indications for exercise testing: a critical perspective
• Previously published