SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.25 issue1Estrategia para el control de ritmo de la fibrilación auricular en el escenario prehospitalarioDisfunción valvular protésica en mujer embarazada con sustitución valvular mitro-aórtica author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Related links

Share


Revista Uruguaya de Cardiología

On-line version ISSN 1688-0420

Abstract

ALLISON, THOMAS  and  BURDIAT, GERARD. Pruebas de esfuerzo cardiopulmonar en la práctica clínica. Rev.Urug.Cardiol. [online]. 2010, vol.25, n.1, pp.17-27. ISSN 1688-0420.

SUMMARY A review of the advantages, interpretation and prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in clinical medicine is provided. Cardiorespiratory fitness directly measured by peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2, VO2max) is an important predictor of mortality in patients with coronary heart disease and represents a significant advantage over estimation of peak VO2 by the standard exercise test. Other important parameters reported during cardiopulmonary exercise testing include: 1) respiratory exchange ratio (RER), which is the ratio of VCO2 to VO2, a relevant measure of effort on the test; 2) breathing reserve (BR), used to determine possible pulmonary limitation to exercise; 3) ventilatory efficiency (VE/VCO2) and end tidal CO2 which are measures of gas exchange in the lung, affected by both intrinsic pulmonary disease and various cardiac abnormalities such as pulmonary embolus, pulmonary hypertension, heart failure, mitral regurgitation, and other conditions affecting left ventricular filling; 4) O2 pulse, which is the product of stroke volume multiplied by the arterial-mixed venous O2 difference. These parameters help understand the dynamics of blood flow and gas exchange in various diseases states and, in the case of VE/VCO2, also provide independent prognostic information. The implemention of cardiopulmonary exercise test is relatively easy and inexpensive and adds significant value to the stratification of patients with complex cardiac disease as well as providing important data for exercise prescription for patients participating in a cardiac rehabilitation program.

Keywords : CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; EXERCISE TEST; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License