Prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in patients with systemic sclerosis
2019
Background
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a severe rheumatic disease of the interstitial tissue, in which heart and lung involvement can lead to disease-specific mortality. Our study tests the hypothesis that in addition to established prognostic factors, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) parameters, particularly peak oxygen uptake (peakVO2) and ventilation/carbon dioxide (VE/VCO2)-slope, can predict survival in patients with SSc.
Keywords:
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Cardiology
- Internal medicine
- Interstitial tissue
- Disease
- VO2 max
- Ventilation (architecture)
- Intensive care medicine
- cardiopulmonary exercise testing
- Pulmonary function testing
- Lung
- Medicine
- Proportional hazards model
- Confidence interval
- Interstitial lung disease
- FEV1/FVC ratio
- Hazard ratio
- Vital capacity
- Correction
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