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Official Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine<br />

1275 Board #221 May 30, 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM<br />

a Multivariable Index for Grading Exercise Gas Exchange<br />

severity in Patients with Pulmonary arterial hypertension<br />

and heart Failure<br />

Chul-Ho Kim, Steve Anderson, Dean McMacarter, Bruce D.<br />

Johnson. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.<br />

(No relationships reported)<br />

Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and heart failure (HF) display<br />

a number of abnormalities in respiratory gas exchange with exercise. These<br />

abnormalities track disease severity and are associated with prognosis. However, there<br />

are limitations due to the large number of variables and difficulty in interpretation.<br />

PurPOsE. To develop a multivariable gas exchange index (MVI) that integrates key<br />

variables obtained during submaximal exercise and to demonstrate its utility clinical<br />

populations.<br />

METhOds. 1) Normal values and ranges of 6 gas exchange variables (Rest PetCO2,<br />

Delta PetCO2, SaO2, OUES, VE/VCO2 and PCAP) that are associated with a higher<br />

risk in PAH and HF were obtained from previous literature and used to develop a<br />

score. 2) To test the MVI score, the gas exchange data from 3 populations (42-PAH,<br />

47-HF, 25-controls) were gathered. Each variable was scored based on severity<br />

(=4=very severe) in HF or PAH and was calculated into a weighted cumulative<br />

individual variable index score which was then divided by total number of variables<br />

to get the MVI. Relationships between individual gas exchange measures, calculated<br />

MVI, cardiac Index (CI), New York Heart Association (NYHA), Right Ventricular<br />

Systolic Pressure (RVSP) and WHO classification were examined.<br />

rEsuLTs. We developed a model to integrate gas exchange variables using a<br />

weighted classification system that categorized disease severity based on the final MVI<br />

outcome. A MVI value of

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