Exercise

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: S. Ward (Leeds, United Kingdom), R. Casaburi (Rancho Palos Verdes, United States of America)

Contractile fatigue, locus of symptom limitation and exercise response to bronchodilation in COPD D. Deschênes, V. Pepin, D. Saey, P. LeBlanc, M. François (Quebec, Canada)
Assessment of training effects on skeletal muscle using near-infrared spectroscopy P. A. Muñoz, E. Gimeno, F. P. Gómez, A. Moreno, H. A. Manrique, J. L. Valera, Y. Torralba, J. A. Barberà, R. Rodriguez-Roisin, J. Roca (Barcelona, Spain)
Effect of carbohydrate metabolism disturbances on tolerence of physical load in patients with bronchial asthma I. Liverko (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Effects of long-term supplementation of branched-chain amino acids on muscle metabolism in COPD patients T. Kutsuzawa, D. Kurita, M. Haida, S. Shioya (Isehara, Japan)
Role of dynamic submaximal relationships during incremental exercise to unravel systemic mechanisms of impairment in patients with mitochondrial myopathy A. C. Gimenes, A. S. B. Oliveira, M. T. de Mello, L. M. Napolis, N. L. e Silva, C. R. Nogueira, C. Malaguti, A. L. Albuquerque, G. O. Siqueira, J. A. Neder, L. E. Nery (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Evaluation of daily energy expenditure with a self-administered questionnaire in COPD patients M. Garet, F. Costes, J. C. Barthélémy, J. R. Lacour, F. Roche (Saint-Etienne, France)
Oxygen uptake efficiency slope in patients with chronic heart failure and coexisting respiratory disease B. Marinov, M. Tokmakova, S. Kostianev, A. Djurdjev (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Oxygen kinetics during submaximal cardiopulmonary exercise testing in adult patients with cystic fibrosis is related to disease severity E. Armeniakou, P. Roditis, G. Perpati, M. Avdikou, C. Pappas, E. Stefanatou, V. Dionusopoulou, E. Pouliou, S. Nanas, C. Roussos (Athens, Greece)
Early recovery oxygen uptake kinetics after exercise in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension D. Stavros, P. Panagiotis, S. Dimitrios, T. Athanasios, G. Vasiliki, N. Vasiliki, T. Elias, M. Michael, G. Sotirios, A. N. Maria, N. Serafim (Athens, Greece)
Exercise training improves metabolic performance of muscles in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease V. Georgiopoulou, D. Sakellariou, S. Dimopoulos, A. Tassoulis, O. Georgiadou, M. Avdikou, E. Manos, K. Kritikos, E. Kastanakis, I. Vogiatzis, C. Roussos, S. Nanas (Athens, Germany)
Aerobic capacity and body composition indices in obese subjects B. Farabollini, C. Rimatori, M. C. Braschi, M. Taus, A. Rappelli, A. Nicolai, F. Bonifazi (Ancona, Italy)
Physiological response to the six-minute walk test in chronic heart failure G. Deboeck, G. Niset, J. L. Vachiery, J. J. Moraine, R. Naeije (Brussels, Belgium)
Reproducibility of six-minute walking tests performed by cardiac and pulmonary patients M. Gudjonsdottir, S. Jonsdottir, B. Magnusson, S. B. Sigurdsson (Mosfellbaer, Reykjavík, Iceland)
An index of walking work tolerance in COPD patients: a validation analysis S. Kostianev, V. Hodgev, B. Marinov, K. Terziyski (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Utility of radial artery catheterization in the performance of cardiopulmonary exercise testing B. A. Staats, C. D. Mottram (Rochester, United States Of America)
Effects of sildenafil on hypoxic exercise capacity in normal subjects V. Faoro, M. Lamotte, G. Deboeck, A. Pavelescu, S. Huez, H. Guenard, J. B. Martinot, R. Naeije (Brussels, Namur, Belgium; Bordeaux, France)
Respiratory drive and exercise capacity in heart failure patients T. Athanasios, D. Stavros, S. Dimitrios, T. Elias, K. Elisavet, V. John, P. Ourania, G. Vasiliki, A. Bania, L. Nikolaos, R. Charalampos, N. Serafim (Athens, Greece)
Stroke volume response and exercise capacity in COPD with and without pulmonary hypertension S. Holverda, H. J. Bogaard, A. Boonstra, P. E. Postmus, A. Vonk-Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Exercise training in pulmonary arterial hypertension F. S. de Man, A. J. van ‘t Hul, W. J. van der Laarse, P. E. Postmus, A. Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands)