PMID- 30595047 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20191017 LR - 20191017 IS - 1541-2563 (Electronic) IS - 1541-2563 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 6 DP - 2018 Dec TI - The Role of Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) in Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Patients. PG - 621-631 LID - 10.1080/15412555.2018.1550476 [doi] AB - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common multisystem inflammatory disease with ramifications involving essentially all organ systems. Pulmonary rehabilitation is a comprehensive program designed to prevent and mitigate these disparate systemic effects and improve patient quality of life, functional status, and social functioning. Although initial patient assessment is a prominent component of any pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) program, cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is not regularly performed as a screening physiologic test prior to PR in COPD patients. Further, CPET is not often used to assess or document the improvement in exercise capacity related to completion of PR. In this review we will describe the classic physiologic abnormalities related to COPD on CPET parameters, the role of CPET in Risk Stratification/Safety prior to PR, the physiologic changes that occur in CPET parameters with PR, and the literature regarding the use of CPET to assess PR results. Finally, we will compare CPET to 6MW in COPD PR, the common minimal clinically important difference (MCID) is associated with CPET, and the potential future roles of CPET in PR and Research. FAU - Stringer, William AU - Stringer W AD - a Chronic Diseases Clinical Research Center (CDCRC), Los Angeles Biomedical Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center , David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA , Torrance , CA , USA. FAU - Marciniuk, Darcy AU - Marciniuk D AD - b Respiratory Research Center, Royal University Hospital , University of Saskatchewan , Saskatoon , Canada. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20181230 PL - England TA - COPD JT - COPD JID - 101211769 SB - IM MH - Exercise/*physiology MH - *Exercise Therapy MH - Exercise Tolerance MH - Humans MH - Minimal Clinically Important Difference MH - Patient Safety MH - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/*physiopathology/*rehabilitation MH - Risk Assessment MH - *Walk Test OTO - NOTNLM OT - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease OT - cardiopulmonary exercise testing OT - pulmonary rehabilitation EDAT- 2019/01/01 06:00 MHDA- 2019/10/18 06:00 CRDT- 2019/01/01 06:00 PHST- 2019/01/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/10/18 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/01/01 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/15412555.2018.1550476 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - COPD. 2018 Dec;15(6):621-631. doi: 10.1080/15412555.2018.1550476. Epub 2018 Dec 30.