Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis – The Predictive Value of Exercise Capacity and Gas Exchange Efficiency

Sven Gläser; Anne Obst; Beate Koch; Beate Henkel; Anita Grieger; Stephan B. Felix; Michael Halank; Leonhard Bruch; Tom Bollmann; Christian Warnke; Christoph Schäper; Ralf Ewert

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065643

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Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis – The Predictive Value of Exercise Capacity and Gas Exchange Efficiency

Sven Gläser ,

* E-mail: sven.glaeser@uni-greifswald.de

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Anne Obst,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Beate Koch,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Beate Henkel,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Anita Grieger,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Stephan B. Felix,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Michael Halank,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus of TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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Leonhard Bruch,

Affiliation Clinic for Internal Medicine, Trauma Hospital Berlin - Association of BG Hospitals, Berlin, Germany
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Tom Bollmann,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Christian Warnke,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Christoph Schäper,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Ralf Ewert

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine B - Cardiology, Intensive Care, Pulmonary Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis – The Predictive Value of Exercise Capacity and Gas Exchange Efficiency

Sven Gläser,
Anne Obst,
Beate Koch,
Beate Henkel,
Anita Grieger,
Stephan B. Felix,
Michael Halank,
Leonhard Bruch,
Tom Bollmann,
Christian Warnke

Published: June 20, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065643

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