Journal article
Safety of symptom-limited cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with chronic heart failure due to severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction
Abstract
BACKGROUND: To assess the safety of symptom-limited exercise testing in patients with New York Heart Association class II-IV heart failure symptoms due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction, we investigated the frequency of all-cause fatal and nonfatal major cardiovascular (CV) events among subjects enrolled in a prospective clinical trial (HF-ACTION). We hypothesized that exercise testing would be safe, as defined by a rate for all-cause …
Authors
Keteyian SJ; Isaac D; Thadani U; Roy BA; Bensimhon DR; McKelvie R; Russell SD; Hellkamp AS; Kraus WE; Investigators OBOTH-A
Journal
American Heart Journal, Vol. 158, No. 4, pp. s72–s77
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
October 2009
DOI
10.1016/j.ahj.2009.07.014
ISSN
0002-8703