Yernault Lecture followed by Hot Topic "Exercise Testing"

Hot topics
Chairs: P. Palange (Rome, Italy), L. Puente Maestu (Madrid, Spain)
Aims: The aims of this session are to:
- review the role of mechanical and gas exchange related factors in limiting exercise
- understand how new measurements techniques can increase understanding of exercise impairment
- recognise the important role of circulatory limitations and impaired peripheral muscle function in determining why patients with COPD stop exercising

Introduction of the Yernault Lecture awardee P. Palange (Rome, Italy)
Yernault Lecture: "Determinants of the ventilatory response to exercise in health and disease: the ventilatory 'efficiency' issue" B. Whipp (Powys, United Kingdom)
Breath by breath quantification of progressive airflow limitation during exercise in COPD J. Porszasz (Torrance, United States of America)