Product Description: Thoroughly updated in its Fourth Edition, this exceptional resource is the most comprehensive, current text on the physiology and pathophysiology of exercise testing available. It is the only reference to address those disorders that can be diagnosed only through cardiopulmonary exercise testing...read more

Product Description: Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and Cardiovascular Health describes new research and findings relevant to cardiovascular health as assessed by cardiopulmonary exercise testing. It brings together investigational cardiologists, pulmonologists and scientists who share a wealth of experience needed to judge the cardiovascular health, and the impairments of patients with a variety of illnesses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Now in its revised, updated Third Edition, this volume provides both the conceptual basis and the practical tools for using exercise testing as part of the cardiorespiratory workup. Coverage ranges from extensive discussions of the pathophysiology of exercise-limiting disorders, to testing protocols, normal values, principles of interpretation, clinical applications, and case presentations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Fifteen contributed chapters deal with the major aspects of the effects of exercise on the respiratory system in health and disease. The chapters are organized into a logically sequential scheme of topics: beginning with pulmonary mechanics; continuing with pulmonary gas exchange, the pulmonary an...read more