Gustavo Ribeiro, Camila Cargnin, Pedro Dal Lago,
Dominique HANSEN, Piergiuseppe Agostoni, Marlus Karsten
Exercise oscillatory ventilation (EOV) is a phenomenon characterized by cyclic oscillations in the ventilatory pattern observed during the cardiopulmonary exercise test (EOV characteristics: Supplementary material online, Figure 1S). It is considered an independent predictor for death and adverse cardiovascular events in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. 1 A recent meta-analysis showed that EOV-positive patients exhibited a worse peak oxygen ...