Standardised exercise training is feasible, safe and effective in pulmonary arterial and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension - results from a large European multicentre randomised controlled trial

E. Grünig (Heidelberg, Germany), A. Mackenzie (Glasgow, United Kingdom), A. Peackock (Glasgow, United Kingdom), C. Eichstaedt (Heidelberg, Germany), N. Benjamin (Heidelberg, Germany), R. Nechwatal (Heidelberg, Germany), S. Ulrich (Zurich, Switzerland), S. Saxer (Zurich, Switzerland), M. Bussotti (Milan, Italy), M. Sommaruga (Milan, Italy), S. Ghio (Pavia, Italy), L. Gumbiene (Vilnius, Lithuania), E. Paleviciute (Vilnius, Lithuania), E. Jureviciene (Vilnius, Lithuania), A. Cittadini (Salerno, Italy), A. Stanziola (Naples, Italy), A. Marra (Naples, Italy), G. Kovacs (Graz, Austria), H. Olschewski (Graz, Austria), J. Barberà (Barcelona, Spain), I. Blanco (Barcelona, Spain), M. Spruit (Maastricht, Netherlands), F. Franssen (Horn, Netherlands), A. Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands), A. Reis (Porto, Portugal), M. Santos (Porto, Portugal), S. Goncalves Viamonte (Porto, Portugal), H. Demeyer (Leuven, Belgium), M. Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium), E. Bossone (Naples, Italy), M. Johnson (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Source: Virtual Congress 2020 – Updated assessment and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Session: Updated assessment and treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension
Session type: Oral Presentation
Number: 3972
Disease area: Pulmonary vascular diseases

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