A non invasive estimate of dead space ventilation from exercise measurements.

RATIONALE: During exercise, heart failure patients (HF) show an out-of-proportion ventilation increase, which in patients with COPD is blunted. When HF and COPD coexist, the ventilatory response to exercise is unpredictable. OBJECTIVES: We evaluated a human model of respiratory impairment in 10 COPD...

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Main Authors: Paola Gargiulo, Anna Apostolo, Pasquale Perrone-Filardi, Susanna Sciomer, Paolo Palange, Piergiuseppe Agostoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3907547?pdf=render