Roberta Pulcheri Ramos

TL;DR: Preserved HRR(1 min) (>18 beats) is associated with less impaired responses to incremental exercise in patients with PAH, a finding likely to be clinically useful when more sophisticated (and costlier) analyses provided by a full CPET are not available.

TL;DR: Pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension is common in symptomatic chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis and is related to interstitial lung disease severity and is more prevalent in hypoxaemic patients with impaired lung function and exercise capacity.

TL;DR: The usefulness of selected submaximal metabolic, ventilatory, and cardiovascular variables in different clinical scenarios and patient populations is highlighted and special care is taken to physiologically justify their use to answer pertinent clinical questions and to improve responses' reproducibility and reliability.

TL;DR: Overall survival among never-smokers was found to be higher and independent of gender and histological type, and prognostic factors for survival after adjusting for age, gender, and adenocarcinoma in multivariate analysis.

TL;DR: Measurements of excessive exercise ventilation which consider all data points maximize the usefulness of incremental cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the prognosis evaluation of PAH.