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Magnussen, Helgo, Canepa, Marco, Zambito, Peter Emilio, Brusasco, Vito, Meinertz, Thomas and Rosenkranz, Stephan (2017). What can we learn from pulmonary function testing in heart failure? Eur. J. Heart Fail., 19 (10). S. 1222 - 1230. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1879-0844

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Abstract

Pulmonary diseases frequently coexist in heart failure (HF), thus posing diagnostic and therapeutic challenges to cardiologists evaluating patients with overlapping symptoms and implementing recommended HF treatments. There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that pulmonary function testing might provide useful information for the best management of these patients. The availability of portable devices, allowing the measurement of spirometry and lung diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide outside of hospital-based pulmonary lung function laboratories, provides an opportunity for a more widespread use of these measures in the cardiology community, but their interpretation can be challenging. In this work, after a brief review of the methodologies, we discuss the interpretation of pulmonary function testing in patients with HF alone or associated with pulmonary diseases, and its contribution in differentiating cardiac and pulmonary symptoms and preventing acute cardiac decompensation. In addition, we examined recent evidence suggesting how the use of pulmonary function testing may provide independent prognostic information in HF patients with and without pulmonary disorders, and help therapeutic decisions to fill the treatment gap that still exists in HF patients with concomitant pulmonary diseases.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Magnussen, Helgo UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Canepa, Marco UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Zambito, Peter Emilio UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Brusasco, Vito UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Meinertz, Thomas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Rosenkranz, Stephan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-215379
DOI:	10.1002/ejhf.946
Journal or Publication Title:	Eur. J. Heart Fail.
Volume:	19
Number:	10
Page Range:	S. 1222 - 1230
Date:	2017
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1879-0844
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL; REDUCED EXERCISE CAPACITY; LUNG-FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; AIRWAY-OBSTRUCTION; EXERTIONAL DYSPNEA; GENERAL-POPULATION; ARTERY PRESSURE; BETA-BLOCKERS Multiple languages Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/21537