The assessment of patients with suspected or confirmed pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and secondary pulmonary hypertension (PH) continues to evolve and, in recent years, evidence demonstrating ...

Pulmonary diagnostic tests are a series of tests which evaluate how well the lungs are performing. These tests may be performed to help diagnose disease, monitor disease progression or therapeutic ...

The assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) now allows for the evaluation of various patient-reported outcomes (PROs); however, these PROs assess different disease features than ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) during exercise testing is linked to the combined risk of CV-related hospitalization and death among patients with chronic dyspnea, confirms a report on more than 700 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I recently was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension after a long list of tests. I went to Boston and had the CPET (Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Test). Since being put on the ...

The Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department provides outpatient services to patients recovering from heart and lung diseases. Our services include supervised exercise sessions, education, and ...

There are many different types of pulmonary function tests that may be used to provide valuable information about the lungs, as well as detect the presence of and/or monitor certain respiratory ...

In adults with Fontan circulation, a higher pulmonary vascular resistance index (PVRI) during exercise and failure to reduce the PVRI were associated with a greater risk for death or heart ...