Feasibility of Exercise Hemodynamic Evaluation in the Clinical Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

Purpose Provocative testing during right heart catheterization (RHC) is gaining increasing acceptance to evaluate cardiac and pulmonary vascular contributions to dyspnea. For this purpose, the use of cycle ergometry at measured work rates has been recommended as a physiologically relevant and sensitive stressor. Methods The program was initiated in 07/2016. After standard diagnostic RHC, patients were transferred to a cycle ergometer and...