Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in congenital heart disease associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension : prognostic implications and exercise metabolic profiling

Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a currently incurable deadly disease characterized by progressively elevated pulmonary vascular resistance which leads to right heart failure and eventually death. Exercise intolerance is a major manifestation which severely affects the quality of...

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Main Author: Zhang, Hongda
Other Authors: Lawrie, Allan ; Jing, Zhicheng
Published: University of Sheffield 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.733602