Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Pulm Hypertens. 2010 Apr 1;9(2):92–100. doi: 10.21693/1933-088X-9.2.92

Figure 3.

Figure 3.

(Panel A) Mean pulmonary arterial pressures (PAP) increased to a greater extent during exercise in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) compared to patients with non-cardiac dyspnea.

(Panel B) Clinical measures (B-type naturetic peptide levels and echocardiographic E/e’) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) diagnostic algorithm42 did not robustly distinguish HFpEF from non-cardiac dyspnea. In contrast, PCWP with leg raise and exercise PASP showed excellent discrimination between HFpEF and NCD.